Latest issue of Hampshire & IOW Medicines Optimisation Bulletin

The latest bulletin contains information on the following:

• MHRA drug safety update: Kaftrio▼ (Ivacaftor, tezacaftor, elexacaftor): risk of psychological side effects
• Reminder: mercaptamine and mercaptopurine confusion between drug names
• MHRA: Thiopurines and intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy
• Co-proxamol prescribing
• A project to reduce urinary tract infections (UTIs)
• DHSC Guidance: Supplying take home naloxone without a prescription
• UKHSA Guidance: Scabies: updated management advice for health professionals
• British Menopause Society: Use of incretin-based therapies in women using hormone replacement therapy (HRT)
• NHSE :Updated guidance on shared care with unregulated gender services
• Falls: assessment and prevention in older people and in people 50 and over at higher risk (NG249)
• Update for primary care on hospital use of Electronic Prescription Service (EPS)
• EMC: Revised SPC Senokot (sennoside or senna fruit extract, senna pods tinnevelly) products
• SPS: Considerations for using medicines following bariatric surgery

Download the bulletin here for more information and links:

• https://cpsc.org.uk/download_file/view/5185/3507