Medicines are the most frequent therapeutic healthcare intervention in the NHS.
The aim is to optimise the use of medicines by promoting cost effective and evidence based clinical practice and effective risk management to ensure that patients get the right choice of medicine at the right time. We work to ensure our population get the most from their medicines, take medicines correctly, avoid taking unnecessary medicines, improve medicines safety, and reduce medicines wastage.
To find information on a medicine, the condition it treats, useful advice or potential side effects, visit the NHS Medicines A-Z web page on the nhs.uk website.
Flu cases are rising across south east London. As a result, health services are under increased pressure, with more patients coming into hospital sick and needing urgent care. In some hospitals up to a third of admissions are because of flu. The flu vaccine can protect those most vulnerable from getting seriously ill. Hundreds of […]
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This week Kuba Krzyzynski, an HIV ambassador for the Terrence Higgins Trust and a HIV Peer Support Manager at METRO, shared great insights at November’s NHS South East London all-staff briefing. Kuba highlighted the work being done to support people living with HIV in south east London, particularly in Lambeth and Southwark – boroughs with […]
