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Notes from Stock Holding Study Day for JAC Users ·
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Notes from Stock Holding Study Day for JAC Users London and East of England This document augments the stock control toolkit for JAC previously circulated.…
Stock Control Toolkit JAC Final Aug 2016 ·
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1 December 2020
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Stock Control with JAC Pharmacy System This paper originally written in 2004 (but hopefully still relevant) is meant to help JAC users in setting up…
UKMI_QA_Injections_Enteral_July_2020 ·
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6 November 2020
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Available through Specialist Pharmacy Service at www.sps.nhs.uk Medicines Q&As What injections can be given orally or via enteral feeding tubes Prepared by UK Medicines Information…
Anna Bischler
Associate Director, Medicines Use and Safety (MUS), Specialist Pharmacy Service
Handling questions about excipients
26 October 2020
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Quality and Risk Management Group Pharmaceutical excipients are constituents of a medicine that are not used for their direct therapeutic action, but to aid the…
Handling Questions About Excipients ·
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Version: 1.0 Date of Preparation:01/10/2020 Date for Review: October 2022 Page 1 of 4 Handling questions about excipients Introduction Pharmaceutical excipients are constituents of a…
4959-Pharmacy_Practice_Unit_LITE_v8-1 ·
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NHS Specialist Pharmacy Service Brand Guidelines User Guide 2016 + + = Medicine Caregiver Expert NHS Specialist Pharmacy Service Brand Guidelines What we stand for…
SPS_A1Poster_2016 ·
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11 November 2020
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RD assessment Doxorubicin V2 ·
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13 November 2020
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Page 1 of 4 NHS Pharmaceutical Research and Development Group Cytotoxic Drug Stability Monograph Background Following the review of stability for cytotoxic drugs for the…
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