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Irish Medicines Formulary (IMF) [1] [2] is a medicines reference for doctors, nurses, pharmacists and dentists, [3] providing medicines information which is medico-legally relevant in Ireland. As of March 2025, the publication will only be published in digital format (IMF Edition 36 due for publication during March 2025).
The following is a list of antibiotics. The highest division between antibiotics is bactericidal and bacteriostatic. Bactericidals kill bacteria directly, whereas ...
[2] [6] A study in Northern Ireland, looking at prescribing in 1965, reported that the BNF was likely able to serve the requirements of prescribers in general practice, while also achieving a cost saving. [7] By 2003, issue 46 of the BNF contained 3000 interactions or groups of interactions, with about 900 of these marked by a bullet. [8] [9 ...
This is a list of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions, including hospital orders (the patient-directed part of which is referred to as sig codes).This list does not include abbreviations for pharmaceuticals or drug name suffixes such as CD, CR, ER, XT (See Time release technology § List of abbreviations for those).
From January 2021, the MHRA is instead a stand-alone body, [3] although under the Northern Ireland Protocol the authorisation of medicines marketed in Northern Ireland continued to be the responsibility of the European Medicines Agency. [4]
The Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland was created in 1925 by the Pharmacy and Poisons Act (Northern Ireland) 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5. c. 8 (NI). Before that point, pharmacists had been regulated on an all-island basis by the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland under the Pharmacy Act (Ireland) 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 57).
The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 (Commencement No. 14 and Savings and Transitional Provisions) Order 2019 8: The Rules of the Court of Judicature (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) (EU Exit) 2019 9: The Food Safety (Information and Compositional Requirements) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 10
Together with the British National Formulary (BNF), the British Pharmacopoeia defines the UK's pharmaceutical standards. Pharmacopoeial standards are compliance requirements; that is, they provide the means for an independent judgement as to the overall quality of an article, and apply throughout the shelf-life of a product.