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NHS Medicines Optimisation Opportunities Dashboard
At the end of July 2023 NHSE published guidance titled “National medicines optimisation opportunities 2023/24”. This guidance describes the 16 national medicines optimisation opportunities for the NHS in 2023/24, and signposts to resources to help with their implementation. It recommends Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) choose at least five medicines optimisation opportunities to focus and deliver […]
Access to opioids in Urgent and Emergency Care settings in NENC ICS – GNPRC 2023
This poster was first presented at the Great North Pharmacy Research Collaborative in July 2023. It investigates access to opioids in UEC settings to identify trends, variations, and areas of good practice; find the poster and abstract below. Download the poster here.
Optimising the use of morphine 10mg/5mL oral solution in primary care (Update)
Opioids are effective for acute pain and pain at the end of life, but there is little evidence of their effectiveness for long term pain. This document supports primary care teams to review patients receiving regular large quantities of morphine 10mg/5mL oral solution and includes advice on how these patients could be managed. This publication […]
Safer Medication Use – Opioids and gabapentinoids
The use of combination opioids and gabapentinoids is associated with an increased risk of adverse events. Gabapentinoid overdose is much more likely to be fatal when combined with opioids and there is a greater risk of gabapentinoid dependence in patients with a history of opioid use disorder. There are limited circumstances when patients should be […]