Guideline News April 2023
Guideline News April 2023
Posted: Friday, May 12, 2023
Category - Medicines Update
GGC Medicines Update is a series of blogs with important medicines related messages relevant to all healthcare professionals across GGC.
Please note, Medicines Update blogs are correct at the time of publication.
Medicines Update blogs remain on the website for 4 years. If you would like a copy of a blog published more than 4 years ago, please contact ggc.medicines.update@nhs.scot.
Click here for a promotional poster on Medicines Update and here for an animation on the Communications subcommittee of ADTC responsible for the development of Medicines Update.
If you would like to contribute to Medicines Update, click here for a guide to blog writing. When you email the committee to discuss writing a blog, you will be sent a checklist to complete prior to submitting the blog for review.
Posted: Friday, May 12, 2023
Category - Medicines Update
Guideline News April 2023
Posted: Friday, May 5, 2023
Category - Medicines Update
Key Medicine Shortages – April 2023
Posted: Friday, May 5, 2023
Category - Medicines Update
Opioid Prescribing Tips
This is second in a series of blogs on opioid safety
Posted: Friday, May 5, 2023
Category - Medicines Update
Posted: Friday, April 28, 2023
Category - Medicines Update
https://www.choiceandmedication.org/nhs24/ Choice and medication is a free resource hosted within NHS Inform for use in NHS Scotland that provides u...
Posted: Friday, April 28, 2023
Category - Medicines Update
MHRA Drug Safety Update April 2023
Posted: Wednesday, April 19, 2023
Category - Medicines Update
In patients weighing up to 150kg, apixaban is the DOAC of choice in NHSGGC for the treatment of venous thromboembolism (VTE) and for stroke prevention secondary to non-valvular AF.
Posted: Tuesday, April 11, 2023
Category - Medicines Update
Guideline News March 2023
Posted: Tuesday, March 28, 2023
Category - Medicines Update
This month’s Blog highlights a number of issues around how to use the system safely and most effectively.
Posted: Tuesday, March 28, 2023
Category - Medicines Update
This blog is the second in a series outlining risks relating to insulin prescribing and administration for adults in hospital, and at discharge and aims to provide good practice points to minimise these risks.