Madeleine Foster, Chief Pharmaceutical Officer’s Clinical Fellow, presents a summary of the resources published by SPS between 14th and 20th December.

To easily find a list of newly published pages go to sps.nhs.uk, select ‘search’, click in the search bar, and press enter.

Quick links to highlighted resources:

Swallowing difficulties

https://www.sps.nhs.uk/home/guidance/swallowing-difficulties/

Treating acute hypomagnesaemia in adults

https://www.sps.nhs.uk/articles/treating-acute-hypomagnesaemia-in-adults/

Shelf lives of aseptically prepared medicines in NRFit syringes

https://www.sps.nhs.uk/articles/shelf-lives-of-aseptically-prepared-medicines-in-nrfit-syringes/

Patient Group Directions: Gadopiclenol contrast agent

https://www.sps.nhs.uk/articles/gadopiclenol-contrast-agent/

Patient Group Directions: Sodium chloride 0.9% in multi injector devices

https://www.sps.nhs.uk/articles/sodium-chloride-0-9-in-multi-injector-devices/

Patient Group Directions: Legal mechanisms and contrast agents

https://www.sps.nhs.uk/articles/legal-mechanisms-and-contrast-agents/

Understanding Patient Group Directions and Integrated Care Boards

https://www.sps.nhs.uk/articles/understanding-patient-group-directions-and-integrated-care-boards/

SPS Spotlight Monthly Digest

https://www.sps.nhs.uk/articles/sps-spotlight-monthly-digest/

Medication Safety Update

https://www.sps.nhs.uk/articles/medication-safety-update/

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Prescribing available medicines to treat ADHD

https://www.sps.nhs.uk/articles/prescribing-available-medicines-to-treat-adhd/

Prescribing available HRT products

https://www.sps.nhs.uk/articles/prescribing-available-hrt-products/

Prescribing and ordering available pancreatic enzyme replacement therapies

https://www.sps.nhs.uk/articles/prescribing-and-ordering-available-pancreatic-enzyme-replacement-therapies/

Next events – forthcoming webinars and conferences

https://www.sps.nhs.uk/home/events/next-events/

Podcast description:

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