The Latest Prescribing Newsletter from Frimley ICB
Written by AlisonFreemantle on Wednesday 1st October 2025
For Pharmacies in North East Hampshire
The latest prescribing newsletter contains information on the following:
- At what age may ADHD medication be prescribed?
- Frimley Formulary updates
- Dexcom ONE + to replace Dexcom ONE
- Management of Shared Care Agreements requests in Docman and patient notes
- Updated asthma guidelines (≥12 yrs)
- Risks of long-term nitrofurantoin use
- Antimicrobial resistance- attributable mortality
- Do you really have a penicillin allergy?
- “Let’s Talk About Vaccines” training opportunity
- Risk of fatal burns with emollients
- Hypoglycaemia awareness week
- Polypharmacy– useful resources now available
- NPSA -shortage of antimicrobial agents used in Tuberculosis (TB) treatment
- Local LFPSE reports and actions
- progesterone cover when oestrogen is prescribed
- selection of correct preparation for intended route
- inadvertent double administration of flu vaccine to a child
- Insulin/ Mounjaro (tirzepatide) mix ups
- Imitation supplies of GLP-1s
- MHRA news and alerts
- RSV vaccine- be alert to a small risk of Guillain-Barré syndrome following vaccination in older adults.
- Magnesium gummies found to contain melatonin
- Carbimazole—updated risk of pancreatitis and teratogenicity
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