Prescribing Tips - 2023 | Consortium of Lancashire & Cumbria LMCs

Index of Prescribing Tips 2023

PT 383 Hospital Only Medications - ongoing management of record keeping

PT 384 Get It On Time - Parkinson-s Medication

PT 385 Deprescribing and reducing carbocisteine

PT 386 Back-up antibiotic prescribing - How to Post Date a prescription

PT 387 Prescribing Tip Installing and Activating Scriptswitch for prescribers

PT 388 - additional vaccine requirements for patients who have had a splenectomy

PT 389 Vaccine Fridge Audit

PT 390 Safety of medicines in pregnancy - useful resources

PT 391 Dexcom One - availability of transmitters on prescription

PT 392 Update on treatments for obesity and weight management

PT 393 Metolazone - further advice on switching patients

PT 394 HRT prepayment certificate

PT 395 Antidepressants suicide risk

PT 396 Choice - Medication

PT 397 SGLT2 inhibitors and Fournier-s gangrene

PT 398 Risks associated with co-prescribing lithium and NSAID-s - updated

PT 399 Guidelines for the appropriate prescribing and deprescribing of Oral Nutritional Supplements

PT 400 Postural Hypotension

PT 401 Recall of Emerade 300mcg and 500mcg adrenaline autoinjectors

PT 402 Tresiba 100unitml pen shortage - updated version

PT 404 Deprescribing - drug holidays from anticholinergics in urinary incontinence in women

PT 405 Vitamin D prescribing tip

PT 406 Unlicensed meds

PT 407 Change from Scriptswitch to Optimise Rx - September 2023

PT 408 Metformin prescribing in Chronic Kidney Disease

PT 409 Interactions between clopidogrel and es-omeprazole

PT 411 Reminder of the risk of pulmonary and hepatic adverse drug reactions with nitrofurantoin

PT 412 NSAIDs in Pregnancy

PT 413 Antibiotic durations for common infections in adults

PT 414 5 day course length for common infections in adults

PT 415 Update on prescribing Febuxostat

PT 416 -es-citalopram and -es-omeprazole

PT 417 High strength opioid trials in new patients with chronic non-cancer pain

PT 418 Paediatrics - consider pills instead of liquids

PT 419 World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week 2023

PT 420 Mefenamic acid - reminder of cautions for use

PT 421 CDI Treatment Reminder and update