Medicines management

The use of medicines can have significant impacts on a person’s health, wellbeing and safety.

Medicines optimisation helps people improve their outcomes by taking their medicines correctly, choosing the medicines that are right for them, avoiding taking unnecessary medicines, reducing wastage of medicines and improving medicines safety.

You can read more about our pharmacy and medicines optimisation strategy:

• Medicines optimisation strategy - two page summary
• Medicines optimisation strategy in full

Medicines management policies

We have a number of medicines-related policies to ensure that medicines are handled safely and securely, prescribed and administered safely and are cost effective. For a full list of policies please go to our policies page.

Choice and medication website

We have signed up to the national choice and medication website to provide patients and clinicians with access to detailed information about medication for mental health conditions. Click here to visit choice and medication.
 

Medicines formulary

We operate within the Greater Manchester Medicines Management Group's (GMMMG) formulary. For information, please use the links below:

• The Greater Manchester Medicines Management Group (GMMMG): Joint formulary
• Medicines recommended for use in the NHS by a NICE Technology Assessment - this document provides a list of medicines with a positive recommendation from NICE and provides links to these medicines in the GMMMG formulary.