Welcome to the East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust Formulary
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December 18 The new inpatient prescription chart should now be used and all unused stocks old chart will be removed. Please have only one prescription chart active on a patient at any one time and use antimicrobial and anticoagulant sections correctly for all medications of these respective classes with review of prescription chart every ward round.
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Sept. 2018:There are ongoing issues with intravenous fluid products. Please see relevant formulary section for latest update.
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July 2018 Welcome to this years new junior doctors. E-learning is available on the prescription chart, safer basic prescribing and how to do VTE risk assessment in our Trust.
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June 2018: Nationally a number of significant supply chain shortages continue to be managed. These include intravenous antibiotics and furosemide. Please check Microguide for latest antibiotic recommendations and Medusa (link on every Trust desktop) for advice in English on formulations of iv drugs supplied by pharmacy.
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March 2018: The Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT) Formulary can now be accessed by the following link. It is now online on the same platform that we will be moving our formulary to. The link can be set up as a webapp if saved to your phone/tablet home screen. see http://www.kmptformulary.nhs.uk/
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July 2017 Take allergy seriously. Always check. See safety video.
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 British National Formulary  Summary of Product Characteristics Information
(if you search on a drug name in the search box above, clicking the BNF/SPC icons under the drug entry will take you directly to relevant web page)
British National Formulary for Children Guys/St Thomas/Kings/Lewisham Paediatric Formulary
TOP TWENTY MOST USED DRUGS - ADMINISTRATION ADVICE ON PATIENTS WITH SWALLOWING DIFFICULTIES OR ENTERAL FEEDING TUBES
The list below provides information relevant to alternative administration in patients with swallowing difficulties and enteral tubes in situ. The information provided is applicable to both routes unless otherwise stated.
http://www.ekhuftformulary.nhs.uk/docs/Top%2020%20alternative%20administration%20options.pdf
SIP FEEDS
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If SIP feeds are to be continued by the GP there will be a message from the dieticians on the EDN under the dietetic summary section.
ABOUT THE FORMULARY
The formulary is maintained by the Medicines Information team. Contact Medicines Information for any formulary or medicine queries by email ekh-tr.MedicinesInformation@nhs.net or telephone 723-6001 (internal) or 01233 616001 (external).
This web formulary is continuously updated. There is more information about our formulary here. Within the Trust more medicines information is found on the Drugs & Therapeutic pages and clinical practice is supported by policies and guidelines on Sharepoint as well as the information on Trustnet. We are constantly mitigating medication shortages and update formulary appropriately.
FORMULARY APPLICATIONS
Trust clinicians should apply to add to formulary new medicines/formulations or new indications for an established drug using the Produc Inclusion request form at http://www.ekhuftformulary.nhs.uk/docs/files/EastKentJointFormularyProductInclusionRequestAugust18.pdftions . Only utilise the previous drug request form if the medication will be used within the Trust at Trust expense on a one off fashion.
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