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Important Changes in Cumbria Palliative Care Prescribing Practice
Cumbria is changing practice, from 1st April 2011.
The Area Prescribing Committee has recommended the following changes:
- All strong opioids are to be prescribed by brand name
- "Just in Case" prescribing is to be encouraged and promoted
- Morphine is to replace diamorphine as the subcutaneous injectable strong opioid of choice for palliative care patients in Cumbria
21/03/2011
North Cumbria Pallative Care website
The award winning North Cumbria Palliative Care website continues to receive around 30,000 page views a year. This is 82 page views every single day of the year, 2,500 hits every month, without any publicity or advertising program.
1/3/2011