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    • Meet the Team
    • The Five LMCs
      • Central Lancashire
      • Lancashire Coastal
      • Lancashire Pennine
      • Morecambe Bay
      • North Cumbria
    • The Origin and Role Of LMCs
  • News
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  • Guidance
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      • Practice Support & Development
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      • Salaried GPs
      • Support for Sessional GPs
      • Keeping Informed
      • The Virtual Practice
      • Getting Involved / Training
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  • Prescribing Tips - 2018

Prescribing Tips - 2018

Launch of Netformulary

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Reminder - Formulary for Blood Glucose Monitoring Testing Strips Now Available on Sharepoint.

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Prescribing of thickeners and the change in International Dysphagia guidelines

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Updated Guidance on Choice of Blood Glucose Testing Meters, Strips and Lancets

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Updated guidance on the prescribing of Oral Nutritional Supplements

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Benzodiazepine withdrawal

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2017 GOLD COPD Guidelines Global Strategy for the Diagnosis, Management and Prevention of COPD

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MHRA Guidance – Miconazole Oral Gel Interaction with Warfarin

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How to navigate the Lancashire Medicines Management Group (LMMG) website

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NHS England Guidance - Items Which Should Not Be Routinely Prescribed In Primary Care

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ScriptSwitch ® - are ALL of your prescribers enabled?

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Regulation 28: Controlled Drugs (CD) Clear Dosing Instructions

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Safety in insulin prescribing

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Estriol vaginal cream

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Updated - Chorley & South Ribble and Greater Preston CCG’s Antibiotic Guidelines

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Fluid Thickener for patients with Dysphagia – formulary recommendation

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Calculating Creatinine Clearance (CrCl) in adults using EMIS

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Adding “Hospital ONLY” drugs onto Emis Web

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Update – Prescribing for gluten free food policy.

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Guidelines - the Management of Behavioural and Psychological symptoms of Dementia (BPSD) in Primary and Secondary Car

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Prescribing of combination LAMA/LABA inhalers in COPD

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Repeat prescribing/repeat dispensing .......Do you know the difference??

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New Triple Inhalers for COPD- Trimbow© and Trelegy©

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Setting up a Patient on Electronic Repeat Dispensing (eRD)

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Inhalation of Braltus Capsules - MHRA warning

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Hypersalivation – what drug treatment options are available?

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Trimethoprim resistance rates update and risk factors for increased resistance

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When patients leave your GP practice to register at another .... do you cancel their outstanding Electronic Repeat Dispensing (ERD) issues?

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Controlled Drug prescribing incident- Lessons Learnt

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Chorley & South Ribble and Greater Preston Antibiotic Audit Results 2018

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Documented ‘penicillin allergy’ - link to increased risk of MRSA and C difficile.

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Protocol for Intramuscular Adrenaline 1:1000 for the treatment of anaphylactic reactions.

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We’re based in Preston,
in the heart of Lancashire

Consortium of Local Medical Committees,
Ambulance Headquarters,
449-451 Garstang Road,
Preston,
PR3 5LN

Tel: 01772 863806

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