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Letters - Supplementary prescribing is key
04-Aug-08
The issue of mixing of two licensed medicines in a syringe driver, thus creating an unlicensed medicine, needs to be resolved so that palliative care nurses have the flexibility to provide care to their patients.
However, patients need not suffer in the meantime as nurses can supplementary prescribe unlicensed medicines. Alternatively, nurses may independently prescribe via separate routes: for example, orally; subcutaneously; intramuscularly.
I am assured that the NMC is working with the MHRA and other stakeholders to address this problem and disseminate best practice.
Professor Matt Griffiths, independent nurse consultant, Peterborough.
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