* External site

Information Sources for Pharmacy Professionals

Local

• RSS – Local Guidelines for the Management of Specific Conditions
• Vale of York website- Prescribing Pages
• Local Formulary Guidelines, including Amber Shared Care Guidance*
• Prescribing Policies
• Yor-Insight Patient Safety Incident Reporting
  • Locally, please report all patient safety incidents via Yor-Insight linked above. If you have any queries relating to patient safety incidents please contact the CCG Medicines Optimisation Team

If you have checked the local formulary and local prescribing guidance and you are still unsure regarding the appropriateness of prescribing a drug then please email the CCG Medicines Optimisation Team. The team can offer professional advice and guidance, we can also help liaison with other healthcare professionals if required. The final decision is held with the prescriber.

Emailing the CCG Medicines Optimisation Team - hnyicb-voy.rxline@nhs.net

Partner Organisations

• TEWV – Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust Pharmacy Services*

Medicines Information

• Specialist Pharmacy Service* (log-on required to access relevant content). Please note all UKMI information has moved to SPS
• Regional Drug and Therapeutics Centre* (log-on required for certain access)
• Regional Drug and Therapeutics Centre Email
  • If you have clinical medicines information queries please contact the Regional Drugs Information service. The CCG subscribes to this service for local prescribers and the in-house CCG medicines optimisation team is not resourced to respond to clinical questions regarding specific patients. The regional team do respond quickly. If you need information faster than a day or so see their website for their phone number and open hours - http://rdtc.nhs.uk/contact-us

Medicines – Prescribing Information

• BMA Prescribing Guidance*
• British National Formulary* (log-on required for Medicines Complete). Also available as an app
• Electronic Medicines Compendium*
• Specialist Pharmacy Service - Choosing Formulations of Medicines for Adults with Swallowing Difficulties*
• Specialist Pharmacy Service - Drug Monitoring Tool*
• MIMS Online*
• NEWT Guidelines* – for the administration of medication to patients with enteral feeding tubes or swallowing difficulties
  • The CCG subscribe to this service and access is available for GP Practice based staff in Vale of York CCG. To receive the password please email the CCG Medicines Optimisation Team - Rxline@nhs.net. The access details may only be used for the surgery to which they were issued and must not be passed on to other surgeries or other organisations. For Pharmacists and GPs working with more than one surgery, access must be requested for each surgery individually. It should be noted that use of information in the NEWT guidelines does not remove the clinical responsibility of the authorising prescriber for off label method of administration.

Medicines Pricing Information

• The Drug Tariff Online*
• dm+d Browser*

Guidelines on Management of Specific Conditions

Please check the local formulary position for further information on medicines approved for prescribing in the Vale of York

• NICE Clinical Knowledge Summaries – NICE CKS*
• NICE*

National Patient Safety

• NHS Improvement – Learning from Patient Safety Incidents*
• NHS Improvement – National Medicines Safety Programme*
• Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency – Medicine Safety Indicators for Safer Prescribing*
• Yellow Card*
• PINCER/PRIMIS Hub*
• Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency*
  
  • Please ensure the practice/you are receiving ‘CAS alerts’ (Central Alerting System) from the MHRA - safetyalerts@mhra.gov.uk

Medicines Optimisation

• PrescQIPP* (log-on required, register under NHS Vale of York CCG)
• NHS England Medicines: Improving Outcomes and Value*
• NHS England – Medicines Optimisation Dashboard*

Prescribing Data

• Open Prescribing – Explore England’s Prescribing Data*
• ePACT2* (log-on required)
• Information Services Portal (ISP) NHSBSA* (able to access some prescribing data without a log-on)

Networking/Sharing Best Practice

• Future NHS Collaboration Platform* (log-on and to specify which areas of the platform you would like to access required)

Pharmacy Organisations/Associations

• Association of Pharmacy Technicians*
• Royal Pharmaceutical Society*
• General Pharmaceutical Council*
• Primary Care Pharmacist Association* – PCPA
  • Some free access materials available but requires membership - £48 per annum for Pharmacists and £39 per annum for Pharmacy Technicians
• Telegram App*
  
  • You are able to join a PCPA group or the local York Practice Pharmacists group. The app works in a phone or there is a desktop version available

Education

• Health Education England – School of Medicines Optimisation*
• Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education – CPPE*
• Red Whale (Non-Pharma Funded Education for Primary Care)*

Miscellaneous

• Patient Group Directions*
• North Yorkshire Antimicrobial Guidance*
• Leeds Health Pathways*
• Antibiotic Guardian*
• How To Guides 
• Controlled Drugs
  • Website*
  • Email

Non-Medical Prescribing

To add/change/remove a non-medical prescriber the appropriate form below must be completed by the GP Practice and send to the ‘authorised signatory’ at the CCG. Currently, this is the Head of Medicines Optimisation for the CCG

• Non-medical Prescriber Joining a GP Practice or Cost Centre
• Non-medical Prescriber Leaving a GP Practice or Cost Centre
• Change of Non-medical Prescriber Details
• Registering Prescribers
• Prescription Security

Community Pharmacy

• Local Pharmaceutical Committee – Community Pharmacy North Yorkshire*
• NHS England Local Area Office Contact*

Care Homes

• Care Homes Webinars

Proxy Ordering

• Proxy Ordering Information

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