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How should dentists prescribe, store, order and dispose of controlled drugs?

6 June 2016This updated Q&A aims to explain controlled drug legislation relevant to primary care dental practice. Includes prescribing for NHS and private patients, ordering/requisitioning, storage and…

Stock Control of Medicines by Pharmacy System

15 August 2016This post provides the content of a series of procurement training resources aimed at assisting in the management of medicines stocks.  There is a “generic”…

Induction Programme for Trust Homecare Leads

30 August 2016The enclosed document has been drawn up as an aid for homecare leads in trusts.  It is meant to be used over a period of…

NHMC Good Practice Principles for the Provision of Manufacturer Funded Homecare Services

5 March 2018These Good Practice Principles set out the National Homecare Medicines Committee’s (NHMC) expectations of Manufacturers offering Manufacturer Funded Homecare Medicine Services in relation to the…

National Homecare Medicines Committee (NHMC) Terms of Reference

5 April 2018National Homecare Medicines Committee (NHMC) The NHMC is a sub group of the National Pharmaceutical Market Supply Group (NPSG) and acts as the national focus…

National Homecare Medicines Committee (NHMC) Proposal for the funding of Pharmacy Homecare Teams

4 May 2018NHMC submitted a proposal for the funding of Trust Pharmacy Homecare Teams to NHS England and NHS Clinical Commissioning for consideration. The NHMC hopes that…

National Homecare Medicines Committee (NHMC) Managing Complaints and Incidents within Homecare Services - Appendix 19 training

2 July 2018In November 2016, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) published Appendix 19 of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) Handbook for Homecare Services in England i.e. ‘Further…

Guidance on the Pharmaceutical Issues concerning Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy (OPAT) and other Outpatient IV Therapy Services 1st Edition January 2018

30 July 2018The development of OPAT (Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy) services and other outpatient intravenous therapies has been rapid over recent years and there are many models…

Pharmacy Institutional Readiness for Marketed CAR-T Therapy: Guidance for Chief Pharmacists V4 (updated January 2020)

2 October 2018This document outlines key areas where Chief Pharmacists should focus pharmaceutical expertise prior to an organisation implementing CAR-T Therapy.

Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation: A toolkit for winter 2018/19

31 October 2018Guidance to help plan and mitigate winter pressures in the acute hospital sector