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.
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ADHD in children and adults
Sept 2018
Aug 2021
Alcohol abstinence
Oct 2019
Sept 2022
Treatment of severe heart rhythm disorder when other treatments cannot be used
Nov 2019
Oct 2022
Immunomodulating drugs
Sept 2019
Aug 2022
Advanced hormone-dependant prostate cancer
May 2019
Apr 2022
Osteoporotic fractures in men and post-menopausal women
Mar 2019
Feb 2022
Maintenance of alcohol abstinence
Oct 2019
Sept 2022
For the maintenance of sinus rhythm after successful cardioversion
Oct 2019
Sept 2022
Somatostatin analogues
Jan 2021
Dec 2023
Hypothyroidism
Oct 2019
Sept 2022
Mania, hypomania & bipolar disorder
July 2019
June 2022
Mania, hypomania & bipolar disorder
Oct 2020
not applicable
Immunomodulating drugs
Sept 2019
Aug 2022
Substance alcohol misuse
Nov 2019
Oct 2022
Symptomatic chronic heart failure with reduced ejection fraction
Feb 2019
Jan 2022
Synthetic Human Growth Hormone
Sept 2018
Feb 2021
Children with epilepsy
Jan 2021
Dec 2023