Medicines Advice Service at Southampton

Written by admin on Friday 5th June 2020

This service supports pharmacists and other professionals providing primary care services in our area (including to care homes) with clinical questions about medicines

 

There are many times when health professionals want to query or check their knowledge before providing advice or medicines to their patients. The Medicines Advice Service at Southampton aims to help GPs, pharmacists and nurses in primary care to use medicines safely

What to do and how to use:

  1. Please utilise your usual online resources about medicines before calling them
  2. Advice about answering common enquiries is also available from the Medicine Safety Portal. This is a collaboration between the Southampton Medicines Advice Service at University Hospital Southampton and Wessex AHSN
  3. Some professionals working in general practice have free access to Medicines Complete
  4. SPS also provides a national information resource hub for care homes
  • If you are still unable to find the necessary information to answer your query then after completing the above;  the Southampton Medicines Advice pharmacists can be contacted on:
  • telephone: This number is for healthcare professionals only. If you require the number, please contact the CPSC team for details*

or

  • email: This address is for healthcare professionals only. If you require the address, please contact the CPSC team for details*

Hours of opening: 0900 to 1830, Monday to Friday

* All community pharmacies were sent an email on 2nd June 2020 from Skye White at CPSC regarding the Medicines Advice Service. The telephone and email address details were shared with you in this email. Please make a note of these details and share with your team.

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