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Information resources for advice on medicines and breastfeeding

4 December 2020SPS and other resources can help pharmacy professionals give advice on use of medicines during breastfeeding

Avoid prescribing desiccated (natural) thyroid extract

20 January 2022Levothyroxine is the standard of care for treating hypothyroidism. Desiccated or natural thyroid extracts (DTE) are not routinely recommended.

Example medicines to prescribe by brand name in primary care

27 March 2022Prescribe certain medicines by brand to ensure supply of the same product. Examples are grouped by therapeutic area. The list of products is not exhaustive.

Switching doxazosin XL tablets to doxazosin standard tablets

12 May 2022Doxazosin XL tablets should not routinely be prescribed. Guidance is provided on switching doxazosin XL tablets to standard release tablets.

Contraception: resources to support answering questions

30 November 2022Suggested resources to help primary care healthcare professionals find information on contraception and reproductive health

Visual impairment: supporting adherence

12 December 2023Interventions and tools to help improve medication adherence, where visual impairment (capability) has been identified as a factor

Social prescribing and pharmacy - an ‘on the couch’ conversation

12 September 2023An opportunity to hear how a social prescriber and pharmacist work together in primary care, with hints and ideas on how to reach out and collaborate

The Use of Generic Anti Epileptics Drugs in Patients with Epilepsy

28 September 2020Consensus views of the Pharmaceutical Market Support Group and the UK Clinical Pharmacists Association: Neurosciences Group on the safety and appropriateness of switching between brand…

Supporting pharmacists with HRT decision making

13 March 2024This webinar, the first in a series of two, provided an overview of the menopause with a focus around the selection, optimising and stopping of HRT.

When and how can dentists supply medicines?

28 November 2019The attached Medicines Q&A aims to explain the legal status of medicines in the UK and when and how they may be supplied by dentists to patients