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Posted: Monday, December 18, 2017
Category - Medicines Update
Given the forthcoming festive period where individuals may be travelling to and from Scotland, community pharmacists are alerted to the recent steep increase of measles cases in England in the past month, including North W...
Posted: Monday, December 18, 2017
Category - Medicines Update
The Scottish Antimicrobial Pharmacists have recently provided some information on eye infections for the Care Inspectorate to ensure nurseries, schools and day care services are aware of what to do with children with conjunctivitis. The full ar...
Posted: Monday, December 18, 2017
Category - Medicines Update
New Adult NHSGGC Guidelines now available on StaffNet
Posted: Monday, December 18, 2017
Category - Medicines Update
Key messages
Posted: Monday, November 20, 2017
Category - Medicines Update
New Adult NHSGGC Guidelines now available on StaffNet
Posted: Monday, November 20, 2017
Category - Medicines Update
Drug Safety Update (October 2017) includes: Methylprednisolone injectable medicine contai...
Posted: Monday, November 20, 2017
Category - Medicines Update
The Shared Care Agreement (SCA) for melatonin use in children with sleep disturbance has been reviewed and updated to reflect a change in preferred product, with a move away from Bio-melatonin® tablets as a result of recent national effecti...
Posted: Wednesday, November 1, 2017
Category - Medicines Update
Please remember to download the new BNF app. The old NICE BNF app is not being updated and will be withdrawn at the end of November. The new BNF app can be downloaded from the App Store for iOS devices, and Google Play for Android devices....
Posted: Friday, October 27, 2017
Category - Medicines Update
Immune checkpoint inhibitors are a relatively new class of cancer medicine. They can only be prescribed by cancer specialists, however, GP’s and non-cancer specialists should have an awareness of their unique spectrum of side effects an...
Posted: Wednesday, October 25, 2017
Category - Medicines Update
Changes have been made to the recommendations on interchangeability of oral mesalazine preparations. The BNF now states that there is no evidence to show that any one oral preparation of mesalazine is more effective than another for ulcerative ...