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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: 28 - Jul - 2022

The Pan Mersey Area Prescribing Committee recommends the prescribing of PATIROMER powder for oral suspension (Veltassa®▼) for emergency treatment of life-threatening hyperkalaemia in adults in accordance with NICE TA623.

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Date Added: 28 - Jul - 2022

The Pan Mersey Area Prescribing Committee recommends the prescribing of PATIROMER powder for oral suspension (Veltassa®▼) for persistent hyperkalaemia in adults following initiation by a specialist in accordance with NICE TA623.

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Date Added: 05 - Oct - 2018

The Pan Mersey Area Prescribing Committee recommends generic sildenafil as the first choice phosphodiesterase type-5 inhibitor for the treatment of erectile dysfunction.

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Date Added: 27 - Apr - 2022

The Pan Mersey Area Prescribing Committee does not recommend the prescribing of PITOLISANT HYDROCHLORIDE film-coated tablets (Ozawade®) for treating excessive daytime sleepiness caused by obstructive sleep apnoea, in accordance with NICE TA776.

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Date Added: 26 - May - 2022

The Pan Mersey Area Prescribing Committee recommends the prescribing of PITOLISANT tablets (Wakix®▼), by specialists working in a regional and national tertiary commissioned sleep service only, for the treatment of narcolepsy with or without cataplexy in adult patients in accordance with the Aintree University Hospital Sleep Service Pathway for Narcolepsy.

 

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Date Added: 26 - Jun - 2019

The Pan Mersey Area Prescribing Committee does not recommend the prescribing of voriconazole or posaconazole, by GPs or specialists, for Allergic Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis.

Date Added: 24 - May - 2018

The Pan-Mersey Area Prescribing Committee does not recommend the prescribing of Potassium Hydroxide 5% (MolluDab® or Molutrex®) on the NHS. Patients are advised to purchase MolluDab® or Molutrex® if they wish.

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Date Added: 26 - May - 2022

The Pan Mersey Area Prescribing Committee does not currently recommend the prescribing of PRASTERONE pessaries (Intrarosa®▼) for the treatment of vulvar and vaginal atrophy in postmenopausal women having moderate to severe symptoms.

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Date Added: 08 - Jan - 2015

The Pan Mersey Area Prescribing Committee does not recommend the prescribing of PREDNISOLONE ENTERIC COATED 2.5 mg and 5 mg tablets.

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