Best Practice Guidance

Best practice guidance  

Medicines Code - Review date extended to February 2022

Monitored Dosage Systems (MDS) - Appropriate use of MDS. SY ICS

SY ICS Medicines Adherence support pre-assessment & review form (for use, should practitioners wish to, before referral to a Pharmacy)

Management and control of prescription forms

• Lost/stolen prescriptions: procedure to report lost, stolen or fraudulent prescriptions
• Aide-mémoire for prescribers
• Aide-mémoire for practice managers

Optimal Repeat prescribing duration:  NHS Sheffield guidance on optimal repeat prescribing duration - May 2009

Recording Specialist Issued Drugs on Clinical Practice Systems - Review date extended to October 2025

Travelling abroad: Prescribing guidelines for patients travelling abroad  -  Review date extended to January 2023

South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Integrated Care System  Generic Brand Guidance for SYB - June 2025

Good Practice Guidance for Prescription Requests for appliances and enteral feeds that are Home Delivered direct from supplier   

Injectables: Best practice for authorising administration of injectables by community nurse teams - April 2027  

Oral linezolid - Communication to primary care clinicians on the new OPAT service - July 2025

Breastfeeding

• Advising on medicines regimens during breastfeeding
• Why breastfeeding is important and how pharmacy can help