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Electronic Medicines Compendium. The Electronic Medicines Compendium is a provider of information on medicines, produced by Datapharm. It lists summaries of product characteristics and patient information leaflets. [1][2]
A package insert is a document included in the package of a medication that provides information about that drug and its use. For prescription medications, the insert is technical, providing information for medical professionals about how to prescribe the drug. Package inserts for prescription drugs often include a separate document called a ...
The NHS Electronic Prescription Service is part of the NHS National Programme for IT of the National Health Service in England.It enables the electronic transfer of medical prescriptions from doctors (or other prescribers) to pharmacies and other dispensers and electronic notification to the reimbursement agency, NHS Prescription Services.
Formulary (pharmacy) A formulary is a list of pharmaceutical drugs, often decided upon by a group of people, for various reasons such as insurance coverage or use at a medical facility. [1] Traditionally, a formulary contained a collection of formulas for the compounding and testing of medication (a resource closer to what would be referred to ...
Electronic prescription (e-prescribing or e-Rx) is the computer-based electronic generation, transmission, and filling of a medical prescription, taking the place of paper and faxed prescriptions. E-prescribing allows a physician, physician assistant, pharmacist, or nurse practitioner to use digital prescription software to electronically ...
LEO – LEO Pharma. LifeScan – LifeScan. Lilly – Eli Lilly and Company Ltd. Lundbeck – Lundbeck Ltd. Martindale Pharma – Martindale Pharmaceuticals - Ltd (Now Ethypharm UK) Mölnlycke – Mölnlycke Health Care Ltd. Mayne – Mayne Pharma plc. McNeil – McNeil Laboratories Ltd. Meda – Meda Pharmaceuticals Ltd.
Patient group directions. Patient Group Directions (PGDs) are medico-legal documents in the U.K. National Health Service that permit the supply of prescription-only medicines to groups of patients, without individual prescriptions. [1] The first digital version of an authorised PGD was created by the pharmacist Wojtek Michael Bereza.
It laid down standards for the composition of medicines and surgical dressings. [1] Subsequent editions were published in 1911, 1923, 1934, 1949, 1954, 1959, 1963, 1968, and finally 1973. The 1934 edition was described by the British Medical Journal as "one of the most useful reference books available to the medical profession". [1]