Monthly Prescribing Focus
This is an archive of the Monthly Prescribing Focus that the Medicines Management Team email each month to the North Yorkshire and York places PCN / Practice Pharmacists and Practice Prescribing Leads:
Feb. 2024 - NYY Meds Safety Group Safety Bulletin Issue 10
Nov. 2023 - World Antimicrobial Awareness Week North Yorkshire Place version York Place version
Sept. 2023 - NYY Meds Safety Group Safety Bulletin - Falls Prevention Issue 9
August 2023 - NHS NEY - Infant Morphine Overdose Case Study (July 2023)
July 2023 - NYY Meds Safety Group - Safety Bulletin Issue 8
June 2023 - 5 Day Course Lengths for LRTIs : AMS stacked charts all localities
May 2023 - Valproate - NORTH YORKSHIRE : Valproate - YORK
Apr 2023 - PPI Reviews : PrescQIPP long term PPI's deprescribing algorithm
Mar 2023 - NYY Meds Safety Group - Safety Bulletin Issue 7
Feb 2023 - Amiodarone Monitoring : accompanying data (source ePACT2)
Jan 2023 - Using Standardised Strengths of Unlicensed Liquid Medicines in Children
Dec 2022 - NYY Meds Safety Group - Safety Bulletin Issue 6
Nov 2022 - Antimicrobial prescribing (North Yorkshire) : Antimicrobial prescribing (York) : NYY COPD rescue pack info for practices : NYY COPD rescue pack patient leaflet
Oct 2022 - Revisiting dosulepin, co-proxamol and trimipramine prescribing : supporting prescribing data (source: ePACT2)
Sept 2022 - NYY Meds Safety Group - Safety Bulletin Issue 5
July 2022 - Inadvertent oral administration of potassium permanganate
June 2022 - NYY CCGs Meds Safety Group - Safety Bulletin Issue 4
May 2022 - UTI Prescribing : Antimicrobial Practice level prescribing data
Apr. 2022 - Unintentional Paracetamol Overdose in Adults with Low Bodyweight
Mar. 2022 - Hydrochlorothiazide Review
Feb. 2022 - Steroid Card (Adult) Update : Steroid emergency cards poster (adult) : New NHS steroid emergency card (adult)
Nov. 2021 - European Antibiotic Awareness Day
Oct. 2021 - NYY CCG Meds Safety Group - Safety Bulletin Issue 3
Sept. 2021 - Items which should not be routinely prescribed in Primary Care
July 2021 - Melatonin prescribing review (HRW locality Practices only)
June 2021 - NYY CCG Meds Safety Group - Safety Bulletin Issue 2
May 2021 - Antimicrobial Stewardship: Focus on Cefalexin
April 2021 - Online repeat prescription ordering & eRD
March 2021 - NYY CCG Meds Safety Group - Safety Bulletin Issue 1
January & February 2021 - Adrenaline Auto-Injectors (AAIs)
November 2020 - European Antibiotic Awareness Day
October 2020 - Steroid Emergency Cards
August 2020 - Valproate Safety (women of chlidbearing age)
July 2020 - Methotrexate Safety