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Volume 15- 2024

Volume 15- 2024

TitleDescriptionDate addedDownload
World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness supplement Nov 202...13/11/2024 Download
SPPG Newsletter Nov 202404/12/2024 Download
Palliative Care Network-Supplement July 202426/07/2024 Download
Issue 9- Oct 2024• Powdered oral nutritional supplements• Can distilled or purified water be prescribed for use in a CPAP machine?• Reminder: Etoricoxib 60mg maximum dose recommended for rheumatoid arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis• Reminder: Lamotrigine dose optimisation• Deprescribe: Emollient bath and shower preparations25/10/2024 Download
Issue 8- Sept 2024• Sumatriptan injections: selecting the correct product• Regional HSC mental health campaign• NICE Guidance• Managed Entry Decisions• Penicillin Allergy Awareness and Checklist - NI Rollout• Deprescribe: Bladder antimuscarinics Treatment break (drug holiday)04/10/2024 Download
Issue 7- August 2024Reminder: adrenaline stock prescribing for the treatment of anaphylaxis in Primary Care; Important Prescribing Changes for Tegretol®100mg/5ml liquid; NICE Guidance Recently published / Withdrawn; Managed Entry Decisions; Mycophenolate Shared Care Guideline Update; Deprescribe: Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs10/09/2024 Download
Issue 6- June 2024•Coroner alert: Death caused by Oxycodone and Pregabalin Toxicity• NICE Guidance Recently published• Managed Entry Decisions• Clozapine & Potential Serious GI Side Effects• Deprescribe: antibiotics for UTI prevention21/06/2024 Download
Issue 5- May 2024• Be aware of similar named oral nutritional supplements• Supply of liquid dose measures for all patients, including adults• NICE Guidance Recently published / Withdrawn• Managed Entry Decisions• Reducing opioid use in chronic non-cancer pain• Deprescribe: Propranolol for anxiety22/05/2024 Download
Issue 4-April 2024• Folic acid use in pregnancy and pre-conception• Category 3 antiepileptics questionnaire• ACP webinars and workshop: Nutrition• NICE Guidance Recently published / Not recommended• Managed Entry Decisions• Management of Vaginal Atrophy• Deprescribe: Preparations for allergic rhinitis23/04/2024 Download
Issue 3- March 202422/03/2024 Download