Updates

Following the publication of final draught National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance on 23 September 2022, approximately 1500 people aged 12 years and older with melanoma are...

Drug Breakdown: sildenafil (Viagra)

With the help of Prescribing and Therapeutics Training Ltd and the Journal of Prescribing Practice, you can earn your 1-hour CPD certificate .

New research on treating obesity through medical and behavioural intervention

The New England Journal of Medicine recently published the results of a study examining the efficacy of tirzepatide—a novel glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide and glucagon-like peptide-1...

Podiatrist's prescribing practice

This paper, published in the Journal of Foot and Ankle Research, is a review of progress made in independent prescribing in the UK (Fitzpatrick and Borthwick, 2022). Its publication marks the 10-year...

Considering green inhalers

Alligation of solutions - creating the unavailable

A Scottish university prescribing team's experiences and reflections during the COVID-19 pandemic

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic created a major paradigm shift in the way teaching and learning occurred in addition to wider social, health and well-being implications (Douglas et al, 2020). The speed...

Using the British National Formulary app to support safe prescribing: a practical guide

The app can be downloaded from the Apple App Store for iOS devices and the Google Play Store for Android devices (BNF Publications, 2022a)..

The influence of non-medical prescribers on antimicrobial stewardship: a national evaluation of the prescribing of antibiotics by non-medical prescribers in England from 2016 to 2021 (part 1)

Retrospective data regarding NMP numbers and antibiotic prescriptions in primary care settings in England and dispensed in the community, from January 2016 to January 2021, were collated, to show...

Alligation of solution – creating the unavailable: answers

Drug breakdown: Penthrox

With the help of Prescribing and Therapeutics Training Ltd and the Journal of Prescribing Practice, you can earn your 1-hour CPD certificate

Drug updates: August

Following a deal with the manufacturer of Dexcom One, patients with type 1 diabetes in England are now eligible for continuous glucose monitors (CGMs). Until recently, the only CGMs widely available...