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The NPC is a health service organisation, formed in
April 1996 by the Department of Health. Its aim is to
'facilitate the promotion of high quality,
cost-effective prescribing and medicines management, in
the wider context of evidence-based practice, through a
co-ordinated and targeted programme of activities
supporting relevant professionals and senior managers
working for the NHS'.
This area of the website
contains information about future NPC therapeutic and
strategic workshops, annual conferences and other
events. A calendar provides you with brief details of
NPC planned events, with their date and location, so
that you are able to plan ahead. It also provides
information on the therapeutic workshops being run
locally by the NPC Training Advisers. Applications are
also posted for NPC main events and conferences.
The primary aim of these pages
are to act as a resource relating to the MMS programme,
whose aim is to develop medicines management
services using the collaborative approach to quality
improvement. This is done through training events and
workshops aimed at explaining the collaborative way of
working to local project teams.
MeReC Publications are produced in-house by the
National Prescribing Centre (NPC). They provide clear,
concise and evaluated information on medicines and
prescribing related issues based on the best available
evidence. They offer pragmatic and timely support both
to prescribers and other
health care professionals involved in the
provision of prescribing advice and medicine management
services.
The National Prescribing Centre (NPC) and the United
Kingdom Medicines Information Pharmacists’ Group (UKMIPG)
have been involved in a collaboration to inform
purchasers in health authorities and primary care trusts
(PCTs) of new drugs which may have significant
therapeutic, financial and service impact on the health
service. This is intended to facilitate effective early
consideration for any potentially relevant local
management action. Selections for products are made 18
to 24 months before they are intended to be marketed,
and a series of NPC in-house publications thereafter
produced.
The NPC has
extended its existing programme of activities for the
NHS to provide a range of targeted support packages that
can be commissioned by healthcare organisations. The NPC
Plus Programme, a new element of the NPC, develops and
co-ordinates these packages.
This site is also available on the
NHSnet It is more comprehensive and
functional for those with NHSnet connections.
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