Medicines optimisation consultation
9th November 2016
NICE are updating the Medicines optimisation: key therapeutic topics document. A consultation was carried out in June/July and the final list of topics has been agreed, with four new topics added. Two of the new topics that may be of interest to palliative care are:
- multimorbidity and polypharmacy
- medicines optimistion in long-term pain: high risk medicines.
NICE are now consulting on the content of the update, with a deadline for comments by 22 November 2016.
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