Home About Us Get Involved Patient information Contact us Home About Us Our Responsibilities Medicines Optimisation Team Medicines Optimisation Team Berkshire West Clinical Commissioning Group has a team of pharmacists, who work to help us get the best out of medicines for our population. Medicines Optimisation is about helping patients and health professionals to make the right treatment choices and use them correctly. We use an evidence-based approach to choosing prescription products which balance the safety, tolerability, value and simplicity. When decisions are made the discussions involve a variety of people including GPs, consultants, pharmacists and patients. Sometimes the decisions can be difficult and we have to make recommendations that involve changes to treatments or restricting their use of particular medications but the overall aim is to get the best improvement in health for the most people with the resources that are available. The list below gives you some examples of things that come under Medicines Optimisation: Giving health professionals unbiased information on new and existing medicines Supporting health professionals and patients to get the best from medicines Helping avoid harms or side-effects caused by medicines Developing guidelines to ensure conditions are managed as well as they can be Making sure patients with specific characteristics that interact with medicines get a treatment that is tailored to them as an individual Communicating with hospitals. Overall, our aim is to improve the health of the local population by promoting the safe, effective and efficient use of medicines. You can contact the Medicines Optimisation Team on 0118 982 2766 or by emailing: BWCCG.medicines@nhs.net . We have a list of medications that are recommended for prescribing locally that is jointly agreed with the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust and Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust. This list is called a "formulary". Its content is agreed at the Berkshire West Area Prescribing Committee. The committee meets bi-monthly and relevant specialists and GPs are always involved in the decisions. You can access the Formulary for the Berkshire West CCG here. The formulary also contains links to the latest local prescribing guidelines, NICE guidelines and NICE appraisals. The Prescribing Oversight Committee (formerly know as the Area Prescribing Committee) provides strategic leadership on the safe, effective and efficient management of medicines across Berkshire West ICP. All POC (APC) documents can be found via the following link. Rebates can be accessed here. About Us Who we are Our Responsibilities Equality and Diversity Safeguarding Medicines Optimisation Team Inhaler technique video guides APC Documents POC Homepage MOT PQS Events Berkshire West Prescribing Dilemmas How your information is used Finance Quality Funding Policies and Individual Funding requests? SEND and the Local Offer Whistleblowing Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Mental Health How we work with others Primary Care Our Public Meetings Publications & Policies If you need medical help and are unsure what to do, call NHS 111 for help and advice. They are available 24 hours a day. Read more Telephone General Enquiries: 0118 950 3094 Continuing Healthcare: 0118 982 2900 Patient Advice and Liaison Service: 0118 982 2720 Address NHS Berkshire West CCG 57-59 Bath Road Reading, Berkshire RG30 2BA Email bwccg.enquiries@nhs.net Quick links About us Get Involved Individual Funding Requests Continuing Healthcare Fair Processing Notice Berkshire West Training Hub Selecteer een taal Nederlands Afrikaans Albanees Amharisch Arabisch Armeens Azerbeidzjaans Baskisch Bengaals Birmaans Bosnisch Bulgaars Catalaans Cebuano Chichewa Chinees (traditioneel) Chinees (vereenvoudigd) Corsicaans Deens Duits Esperanto Ests Fins Frans Fries Galicisch Georgisch Grieks Gujarati Haïtiaans Creools Hausa Hawaïaans Hebreeuws Hindi Hmong Hongaars Iers Igbo IJslands Indonesisch Italiaans Japans Javaans Jiddisch Kannada Kazachs Khmer Kinyarwanda Kirgizisch Koerdisch Koreaans Kroatisch Lao Latijn Lets Litouws Luxemburgs Macedonisch Malagasi Malayalam Maleis Maltees Maori Marathi Mongools Nepalees Noors Odia (Oriya) Oeigoers Oekraïens Oezbeeks Pashto Perzisch Pools Portugees Punjabi Roemeens Russisch Samoaans Schots Keltisch Servisch Sesotho Shona Sindhi Sinhala Slovaaks Sloveens Soendanees Somalisch Spaans Swahili Tadzjieks Tagalog Tamil Tataars Telugu Thai Tsjechisch Turkmeens Turks Urdu Vietnamees Wels Wit-Russisch Xhosa Yoruba Zoeloe Zweeds Mogelijk gemaakt door Translate © Berkshire West CCG 2021 Cookies Accessibility Sitemap WTDigital Fair Processing Notice