September 2023 updates to the website
21 September 2023
The website has now been updated following September's LSCMMG
The following guidelines have been added/updated:
Gout guideline - updated
Erectile dysfunction guideline - updated
Melatonin Pathway (Children) - added
Lithium shared care guideline - updated
COPD desktop guideline - Update to follow in October
The following medicines have been updated:
Eluxadoline - Treating irritable bowel syndrome with diarrhoea (NICE TA471): removed from website
Rimegepant - Preventing migraine (NICE TA906)
The following Items will be updated and added to the website following the next Commissioning Resource Group (CRG) Meeting:
Brimonidine Tartrate (Mirvaso) 3mg/g Gel - symptomatic treatment of moderate to severe facial erythema of rosacea in adult patients
Ibandronic acid 50 mg Tablets - adjuvant treatment of early breast cancer in postmenopausal women with a high risk of recurrence (unlicensed indication)
Flupentixol (as dihydrochloride) - schizophrenia and other psychoses
Sodium fluoride 1.1%toothpaste (Duraphat) - For use by patients suffering head and neck cancer patients who have had surgery, radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy.
Bempedoic acid with ezetimibe - for treating primary hypercholesterolaemia or mixed dyslipidaemia (RAG review)
Cenobamate - treating focal onset seizures in epilepsy (NICE TA753) (RAG review)