Derbyshire Medicines Management
and Clinical Policies
Shared Care Guidelines are local policies to enable GPs to pick up the prescribing and monitoring of medicines/treatments in primary care in agreement with the initiating specialist. If you receive a request to prescribe in the absence of a shared care guideline which you feel is inappropriate please complete an inappropriate request form.
Useful Resource
ADHD in children and adults
Sept 2018
Mar 2023
Alcohol abstinence
Dec 2022
Nov 2025
Treatment of severe heart rhythm disorder when other treatments cannot be used
Nov 2019
Apr 2023
Immunomodulating drugs
Sept 2019
Feb 2023
For use in adult respiratory infections
Aug 2022
July 2025
Advanced hormone-dependant prostate cancer
May 2022
Apr 2025
Osteoporotic fractures in men and post-menopausal women
June 2022
May 2025
Maintenance of alcohol abstinence
Dec 2022
Nov 2025
For the maintenance of sinus rhythm after successful cardioversion
Oct 2019
Mar 2023
Somatostatin analogues
Jan 2021
Dec 2023
Hypothyroidism
Nov 2022
Oct 2025
Mania, hypomania & bipolar disorder
July 2019
June 2023
Immunomodulating drugs
Sept 2019
Aug 2022
Substance alcohol misuse
Dec 2022
Nov 2025
Synthetic Human Growth Hormone
Aug 2021
July 2024
Children with epilepsy
Jan 2021
Dec 2023
