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.
SEL ICB has published its transformation plan for children and young people’s mental health and emotional wellbeing services in south east London. Our aim is to support service improvements that will benefit children and young people, their parents and carers across our six boroughs. The NHS works with partners across south east London to deliver […]
SELnet is a new, central source of information for primary care in south east London. It launched on Monday 9 September. SELnet has been developed by NHS South East London in response to demand from, and in close collaboration with, colleagues in primary care. It is an Extranet – a type of website that is […]
Earlier this month, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the mpox outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and a growing number of countries in Africa to be a public health emergency of international concern. This follows the rapid spread of mpox virus strain, clade 1. So far, no cases of clade 1 […]
