New Medicine Service (NMS)
The service provides support for people with long-term conditions newly prescribed a medicine to help improve medicines adherence
The Service:
August 2021
Service updated to include additional therapeutic areas.
For up to date information and references, please refer to the NMS pages on the CPE website.
Below, we have produced referenced indexes for all other important NMS related information, documents and resources that we have uploaded into various CPSC news articles published:
- The indexes are automatically created in date order (newest at the top)
Further useful resources:
- NPC - www.npc.co.uk
- BTS/Sign asthma guideline - www.brit-thoracic.org.uk
- Cardiovascular Risk Assessor software - www.heartuk.org.uk/HealthProfessionals/
- NICE guidelines - www.nice.org.uk
- Department of Health - www.dh.gov.uk
- Healthy lives, healthy people - www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publichealth/Healthyliveshealthypeople/index.htm
- Healthy living - www.dh.gov.uk/health/category/policy-areas/public-health/healthy-living/
- Improving the lives of people with long term conditions - http://healthandcare.dh.gov.uk/improving-the-lives/
- NHS website - www.nhs.uk
- NHS information: includes guidance on all the NMS focus areas covering symptoms, causes, diagnosis, treatment, as well as guidance for patients on living with the condition
- Paient.co.uk - www.patient.co.uk
- Health information for patients (used by many GP practices); information available on all the NMS conditions as well as other useful tools such guidance on using inhaler devices and peak flow recording and diaries
- The National Cancer Institute: information on the relation between smoking and cancer - http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/tobacco/smoking/
- The Quit Smoking Community - http://quitsmokingcommunity.org/