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Drug Name Classification Clinical Indication Comments
Phenobarbital Yellow Epilepsy

MHRA alert (Dec 2014) adverse effects on bone and MHRA alert (Nov 2017) updated advice on switching between different manufacturers’ products

AZATHIOPRINE Orange Rheumatological disease

Full SCA

Carbamazepine Yellow Epilepsy

MHRA alert (Dec 2014) adverse effects on bone and MHRA alert (Nov 2017) updated advice on switching between different manufacturers’ products

COLISTIN (Colomycin ® and Promixin®) (UPDATED) Yellow Bronchiectasis

Please see guide for more information. Must be prescribed by brand as the brands are not interchangeable.

COLISTIN (Colomycin® and Promixin ®) (UPDATED) Orange Nebulised for cystic fibrosis

Historic patients only. Must be prescribed by brand as the brands are not interchangeable.

SCA

DENOSUMAB (Prolia®) (UPDATED) Orange Osteoporosis

Full SCA

 

LEFLUNOMIDE Orange Rheumatological disease

Full SCA     Request form

PENICILLAMINE Orange Rheumatoid arthritis

Full SCA

Phenytoin Yellow Epilepsy
Primidone Yellow Epilepsy
Sodium Valproate Yellow Epilepsy
SULFASALAZINE Orange Rheumatological disease

Full SCA

Trihexyphenidyl Green Parkinson, Drug-induced extrapyramidal symptoms, Dystonia

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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