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Drug Name Classification Clinical Indication Comments
BIMATOPROST / TIMOLOL eye drops (UPDATED) Green Glaucoma

If a combination product is considered appropriate.

If a preservative free formulation is required, please prescribe the 3ml preservative free multi-dose containers as a first choice.

Preservative free multi-dose containers are unsuitable for patients with a history of contact hypersensitivity to silver. Please use ‘unpreserved unit doses’ in their place.

BIMATOPROST / TIMOLOL preservative free eye drops (Ganfort UD®) Green Glaucoma
BIMATOPROST preservative free eye drops (UPDATED) Green Glaucoma

If a preservative free formulation is required, please prescribe the 3ml preservative free multi-dose containers as a first choice.

Preservative free multi-dose containers are unsuitable for patients with a history of contact hypersensitivity to silver. Please use ‘unpreserved unit doses’ in their place.

DORZOLAMIDE / TIMOLOL eye drops (UPDATED) Green Glaucoma

Prescribe generically.

If a preservative free formulation is required, please prescribe the 5ml preservative free multi-dose containers as a first choice.

Preservative free multi-dose containers are unsuitable for patients with a history of contact hypersensitivity to silver. Please use ‘unpreserved unit doses’ in their place.

DORZOLAMIDE eye drops (UPDATED) Green Glaucoma

Prescribe generically.

If a preservative free formulation is required, please prescribe the 5ml preservative free multi-dose containers as a first choice.

Preservative free multi-dose containers are unsuitable for patients with a history of contact hypersensitivity to silver. Please use ‘unpreserved unit doses’ in their place.

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Recent documents from LLR APC and TAS


About the Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Area Prescribing Committee

In common with other local health communities, the Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Area Prescribing Committee (LLR APC) acknowledges the benefits of having a Leicestershire Health Community-wide strategy for the prescribing of specialist medicines and the managed entry of new drugs and related technologies.

Leicestershire Health Community comprises the Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Integrated Care Board, University Hospitals of Leicester (UHL) NHS Trust and Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT), amongst which there is a total consensus on the need for this strategy, and the LLR APC has been in place since 2005. Learn more