Medicines and prescribing support from NICE

With the integration of the former National Prescribing Centre into NICE, we now offer a comprehensive suite of advice and support for delivering quality, safety, and efficiency in the use of medicines.

The Medicines and Prescribing Centre at NICE provides support for medicines and prescribing through:

Advice on medicines optimisation including support for QIPP
Specific medicines advice, for example on unlicensed and off-label drugs
Practical tools and materials to aid implementation

Explore the sections below for the new products and services from the Medicines and Prescribing Centre.

- Evidence summaries: new medicines
- Summaries of the best available evidence for selected new medicines, or for existing medicines with new indications, to inform local NHS planning and decision-making.
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- Evidence summaries: unlicensed/off-label meds
- A new service providing summaries of the best available evidence on selected unlicensed and off-label medicines, designed to meet demand for information to inform local NHS planning and decision-making.
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- Good practice guidance
- Advice to support best practice in medicines management and use in the NHS, including good practice guidance on developing local medicines formularies.
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- QIPP
- Materials to support the QIPP medicines use and procurement work stream.
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- Events
- Our programme of national events for medicines managers and prescribers, free of charge for NHS staff in England.
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- Communities of practice
- Support for communities of practice including controlled drugs, new medicines, local decision making and medicines and prescribing trainers and facilitators.
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- Alerts and Awareness Service
- Sign up for and manage your subscriptions for the Medicines Awareness Service and a range of medicines and prescribing alerts.
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- British National Formulary
- NICE is responsible for providing access for the NHS to the British National Formulary.
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