Area Prescribing Committee
This website is the repository of all documents agreed by the APC which are easily accessed using the index on the left
APC Mission Statement:To provide strategic leadership and advice, and to monitor resulting outcomes, on the safe, effective and efficient management of medicines across organisational interfaces, taking into account the impact on the entire health community of Coventry and Warwickshire and its stakeholders
The APC would be grateful if all regular site visitors could encourage as many colleagues to refer to the website for resources and information about health economy wide prescribing issues.
Documents to be found on the APC website include:
APC Key Documents - Includes Mission Statement, Terms of Reference and current membership list
Urgent Bulletins – Urgent messages to the prescribing community
Safety Alert Notices - APC safety alerts, such as relating to NPSA safety notices, published in response to local or national issues
Drug Positioning Statements – Recommendations relating to the prescribing of specific drugs across the health economy
Interim Positioning Statements - Statements regarding new drugs, or new licensed indications for established drugs, for which healtheconomy-wide positioning is regarded as urgent before national guidance is issued
Resource Documents - A list of documents which may, or may not, have APC approval but which are regarded as essential support to prescribers with prescribing decision making relevant to interface drugs. This section contains useful documents such as expiry date guidance for medicines used in the care homes sector and guidance regarding the prescribing of melatonin
Guidelines – Specific local prescribing guidelines including; community antibiotic prescribing guidance, the Discouraged Medicines List and the Arden Prescribing Formulary
Specialist Drugs List – Specialist initiated drugs, those that have significant pharmacological complexity and/or rarity of use to make the prescribing of the medicine relatively uncommon in the community, grouped into Specialist Initiated, Shared Care and Specialist Only categories
Shared Care Agreements – Agreements for use when shared care specialist drugs are requested for ongoing prescription in primary care
APC Meeting Minutes - APC meeting minutes which will be available on this site soon after the following meeting at which the minutes are rafified for publication
NICE Guidance - Please access the NICE website for NICE guidance referenced in APC publications