BNF 84 (British National Formulary) September 2022-March 2023: 84: September 2022 - March 2023

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Cordarone X ®): reminder of risks of treatment and need for patient monitoring and supervision [MHRA/CHM advice]. As with earlier editions of the BNF, practitioners must ensure that the particular product being prescribed or dispensed is appropriate. The Pharmaid scheme of the Commonwealth Pharmacists Association will dispatch old BNFs to certain Commonwealth countries. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.

Anyone found to have any of the drugs (including related drugs, for example, apomorphine hydrochloride p. A number of bodies make drafts or pre-publication copies of the guidelines available to the BNF; it is therefore possible to ensure that a consistent message is disseminated.The Nurse Prescribers’ Advisory Group advises on the content relevant to nurses and includes representatives from different parts of the nursing community and from the UK Health Departments. The NICE British National Formulary (BNF) site is only available to users in the UK (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland). Computer-issued prescriptions For computer-issued prescriptions the following advice, based on the recommendations of the Joint GP Information Technology Committee, should also be noted: 1 The computer must print out the date, the patient’s surname, one forename, other initials, and address, and may also print out the patient’s title and date of birth. Patients should be prescribed a preparation that complements their daily routine, and that provides the right dose of drug for the right indication and route of administration.

For legal requirements relating to prescriptions of Controlled Drugs, see Controlled drugs and drug dependence p. The recommendation is given a grade that is extrapolated from the level of evidence, and an assessment of the body of evidence and its applicability. Where drugs have systemic and local uses, for example, chloramphenicol, and the considerations around drug use are markedly different according to the route of administration, the monograph is split, as with earlier editions, into the relevant chapters.The index also includes the names of branded medicines and other topics of relevance, such as abbreviations, guidance sections, tables, and images. addition of Southeast Asian ethnicity to dosing for treatment of chronic idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura and aplastic anaemia]. Correspondents in the pharmaceutical industry have provided information on new products and commented on products in the BNF. Guidance on prescribing General guidance Medicines should be prescribed only when they are necessary, and in all cases the benefit of administering the medicine should be considered in relation to the risk involved.