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Medicines Management

Fungal skin infections

Fungal infections caused by dermatophytes, a group of fungi that invade and grow in dead keratin, causing infection that is normally confined to dead layers of skin. Because dermatophytes require...

Nutrition and oncology: best practice and the development of a traffic light system

Multidisciplinary working is vital to proactively manage the nutritional care of oncology patients, whether this is via oral nutritional support or prophylactic/reactive enteral feeding..

Medicines reconciliation of biologics on a primary care clinical system

DMARDs (Disease Modifying Anti-Rheumatic Drugs) such as methotrexate, azathioprine and leflunomide, licensed in dermatological, gastrointestinal and rheumatic conditions are not strictly biologics....

Updates: July 2021

On 10 June, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) published new final guidance that has recommended several new treatment options for around 25 000 people with moderate...

Drug breakdown: Ciprofloxacin

Day 1: A by-product of chloroquine synthesis, quinolone antibiotics were discovered in the early 1960s. Already broad spectrum, the addition of chemical groups such as fluorine led to the 2nd...

The earlier the better: statins to reduce cholesterol and cardiovascular disease

A recently published study evaluated incident cardiovascular disease (CVD) and the initiation as well as subsequent adherence to statin treatment for the treatment of primary prevention in those who...

Calculation Skills: keeping it simple

Try the following drug calculations and remember that Sir Isaac Newton [1643-1727] once said ‘Truth [the answer] is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of...

Updates: May 2021

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) announced on the 4 May 2021 that more people the rare genetic disorder spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) will be able to benefit from...

Drug breakdown: Rivaroxaban

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Exploring the significance of delayed antimicrobial prescribing

In 2016, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) released a quality statement declaring that prescribers in primary care could use delayed prescribing of antimicrobials where they...

Polypharmacy and multimorbidity

This Canadian review paper by Potempski and Bilimoria (2021) aimed to highlight the common phenomenon of polypharmacy in the light of the COVID-19 global pandemic. They begin by pointing out that...

A newly qualified physiotherapist non-medical prescriber in the pandemic

Throughout my training, and as a newly qualified NMP, I was fortunate to work closely with a multidisciplinary team of consultants and nurse specialists in the specialty of rheumatology, all of whom...

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