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.
We have launched a new online service called the Dynamic Support Register (DSR) Portal. It’s there to help anyone in south east London with a learning disability, autism, or both. You can now access the service here. Why this matters to you The DSR Portal helps make sure you get the right support at the […]
A neighbourhood approach to health and care
Weight loss medicines have been approved by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in England. We are starting to make these available to people in south east London.
