New GMC prescribing guidance published

Source: GMC, PharmaTimes Area: News The General Medical Council (GMC) has released its new prescribing guidance. The 'Good practice in prescribing and managing medicines and devices' strengthens and broadens the current advice on prescribing medicines to include medical devices, and gives key updates on using unlicensed medicines.   Following concerns that doctors may be prescribing some unlicensed medicines when a more expensive licensed alternative exists, in the new publication the doctors' regulator said clinicians can still prescribe medicines outside their licence only "when it is necessary to do so to meet the specific needs of the patient" - meaning the focus is on the patient's interest, not the NHS' finances   The guidance will be published on the GMC website on 25th March 2013 and replaces the previous edition, published in 2008.
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