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Recommendations

This section contains a list of the policy recommendations of the Pan Mersey Area Prescribing Committee.

Reviews of the new medicines have been conducted by our pharmacists using a number of resources including National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) which is a Special health Authority (SHA) set up in 1999. It is used to give advice to the NHS on best clinical practice including the clinical and cost effectiveness of drugs and other treatments.

Definitions and criteria for the categorisation of medicines

Legacy Merseyside
New Cheshire and Merseyside

Transition of Commissioning Policies

On 1st July 2022 NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board (ICB) became the new statutory body responsible for ensuring health care services are available to meet the reasonable needs of the people of Cheshire & Merseyside.

Until such time as a single suite of commissioning policies can be developed and adopted, NHS Cheshire and Merseyside will continue to adopt and operate the CCG policies it has inherited at Place/borough level, which means that there will be no immediate change in commissioning policy for local people resident in those Places/boroughs from what was in place prior to 1st July 2022.

NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Commissioning Policies

 

Documents

Date Added: 23 - Sep - 2021

The Pan Mersey Area Prescribing Committee recommends the prescribing of melatonin for the treatment of persistent chronic sleep disorders in the circumstances where sleep hygiene measures have been insufficient.

Management of sleep disorders in children and adults - flowchart

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Date Added: 14 - Nov - 2017

The Pan Mersey Area Prescribing Committee recommends the use of meningococcal group B vaccine (Bexsero)®▼ in accordance with the meningococcal B (MenB) vaccination programme from Public Health England.

Body System:
Date Added: 28 - Feb - 2018

The Pan Mersey Area Prescribing Committee recommends the prescribing of Mesalazine oral formulations by brand name following specialist initiation for inflammatory bowel disease. Octasa® brand is considered to be equivalent to Asacol® brand and currently represents a more cost effective choice.

Date Added: 30 - Nov - 2018

The Pan Mersey Area Prescribing Committee recommends the prescribing of methadone tablets (Physeptone®) in adults following initiation by a consultant in pain medicine in a tertiary centre.

 Red  Halton Place and Sefton Place

Prescribing support information

GP letter

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Date Added: 25 - Nov - 2021

The Pan Mersey Area Prescribing Committee does not currently recommend the prescribing of MOMETASONE / OLOPATADINE nasal spray (Ryaltris®) for allergic rhinitis.

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