Changes since January 2016 Authors/ Publisher/ ISBN Edition (year) Est. Cost C or A Notes Handbook of Pharmaceutical Excipients Rowe RC et al Pharmaceutical Press ISBN: 978085711027 5 7th (2012) ££££ A Change : new recommendation Natural Medicines Database Therapeutic Research Centre, Somerville, America online £££££ A Change: new web address Meyler’s Side Effects of Drugs Aronson, J Elsevier ISBN:9780444537164 16th 2015 Plus online £££££ paper A Change : new edition Also available via Homeopathic Pharmacy Kayne, S Churchill Livingstone ISBN: 04433101604 2nd 2006 £ A Change : no longer recommended IV Compatability Database (via Micromedex) Truven Health Analytics online £££££ A Change : new recommendation Available as part of the Micromedex suite of products, featuring Trissel’sTM 2 data. some different/additional data to the Handbook of Injectable Drugs (available via Medicines Complete) Paediatric Care online Partnership Group online £ A Change : new recommendation A decision support tool for Centres with a substantial paediatric element. UCL Hospital Injectable Medicines Guide The UCLH Pharmacy Department Wiley-Blackwell ISBN: 1405191929 3rd 2010 Plus online £ paper, A Change : no longer recommended as ‘Core’ Now considered ‘additional’ due to currency of the resource Resources for Purchase by NHS MI Services Title Authors/ Publisher/ ISBN Edition (year) Est. Cost C or A Notes General AHFS Drug Information McEvoy, GK American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Annual Plus online See C *UKMi Deal* Online version accessed via MedicinesComplete. Hard copy is unreferenced.
Martindale, the Complete Drug Reference Sweetman, S Pharmaceutical Press ISSN: 0263-5364 38th 2014 Plus online £££££ paper C *UKMi Deal* for electronic version only (via MedicinesComplete) Write Effectively Albert T. Radcliffe Publishing. ISBN: 1846191351 2008 £ A Useful if you are involved in a lot of bulletin writing. UpToDate Wolters Kluwer On-line £££££ See Notes A Useful for background information. Not to be used as a sole source of evidence. Access may already be available via employer. Adverse effects Meyler’s Side Effects of Drugs: The International Encyclopedia of Adverse Drug Reactions and Interactions Aronson, J Elsevier ISBN:9780444537164 16th 2015 Plus online £££££ paper A Consider availability of relevant resources when deciding whether to purchase. Also available online via Adverse Drug Reactions Lee, A Pharmaceutical ISBN: 0853696012 2nd 2006 £ A Complementary Medicine Natural Medicines Database Therapeutic Research Centre, Somerville, America online £££££ A Updated online and frequent bulletins. NOTE: UKMi Deal is no longer available. Herbal Medicines Pharmaceutical Press ISBN: 9780857110350 4th 2013 Plus online ££ ££ A Online via MedicinesComplete *UKMi Deal*. Complementary Medicine Stockley's Herbal Medicines Interactions Williamson E, Driver S, Baxter K Pharmaceutical Press ISBN 9780857110268 2nd 2013 Plus online ££ paper Online A Dietary Supplements P Pharmaceutical Press ISBN: 978-0853698838 4th 2011 Plus online ££ Paper Online A Online version via Medicines Complete *UKMi deal*
Contraception and Hormone Replacement Therapy Contraception: Your Questions Answered Guillebaud J, Macgregor A Churchill Livingstone ISBN: 978-0702046193 6th 2012 £ C The Pill Guillebaud J Oxford University Press ISBN: 9780199565764 7th 2009 £ A Cytotoxics Cytotoxics Handbook Allwood, M et al Radcliffe Medical ISBN: 1857755049 4th 2002 ££ A Most manufacturing units hold this. Diagnostic tests Oxford Handbook of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation Provan D, et al Oxford University Press ISBN: 9780199233717 3rd 2010 £ A Note: freely available resource Drug abuse Drugs of Abuse Wills, S Pharmaceutical Press ISBN: 0853695820 2nd 2005 £ A Drug administration *Handbook of Drug Administration via Enteral Feeding Tubes R & Bradnam V Pharmaceutical Press ISBN: 9780857111623 3rd 2015 Plus online £ C * All MI centres should hold at least one of these resources Also available via MedicinesComplete *UKMi deal* Electronic access via (preferred as updated between editions). The NEWT Guidelines for Administration of Medicines to patients with Enteral Feeding Tubes or Swallowing Difficulties Smyth JA East Wales NHS Trust. Available from Pharmacy Department, Wrexham Maelor Hospital, Croesnewydd Road, Wrexham, LL13 7TD. 01978 725178 ISBN: 9780955251535 3rd 2015 plus online £
Handbook on Injectable Drugs McEvoy, GK American Society of Health-System Pharmacists ISBN-13: 9781585284191 18th 2014 Plus online ££££ paper, online C Available via MedicinesComplete *UKMi deal* UCL Hospital Injectable Medicines Guide The UCLH Pharmacy Department Wiley-Blackwell ISBN: 1405191929 3rd 2010 Plus online £ A UCLH guide is available in paper, web and app formats (see for details). Injectable Drugs Guide Gray, A et al. Pharmaceutical Press ISBN 9780853697879 1st 2011 Plus online £ A Available via MedicinesComplete. *UKMi deal* IV Compatability Database (via Micromedex) Truven Health Analytics online £££££ A Available as part of the Micromedex suite of products, featuring Trissel’sTM 2 data. different/additional data to the Handbook of Injectable Drugs (available via Medicines Complete). Consider only if already have access to Micromedex. The Syringe Driver: Continuous Subcutaneous Infusions in Palliative Care Dickman A and Schneider J. Oxford University Press ISBN: 978019-9569724 3rd 2011 £ C Drug interactions Stockley’s Drug Interactions K, Preston CL. Pharmaceutical ISBN: 9780857110619 10th 2013 Plus online ££££ C Online access via MedicinesComplete *UKMi Deal* Epilepsy The Epilepsy Prescriber's Guide to Antiepileptic Drugs PN Cambridge University ISBN: 9781107664661 2nd Ed 2013 Plus ebook £ A Monograph style covering the antiepileptic drugs. Also includes pregnancy and paediatric prescribing information. Also available as an Adobe ebook. Lactation At least two resources should be used for all lactation enquiries. Note, some resources include both pregnancy and lactation information See also list.
Medications and Mothers’ Milk Hale & Rowe Hale publishing ISBN: 978-1939847386 16th 2014 plus online £ paper £ Online* (see ) C *Online access is preferable, as it is updated between published editions. However, a new paper edition, for a short period, may be the most version. Check both versions at this time if available. Alternatively, if unable to clarify information elsewhere, contact the specialist breast-feeding centres. Drugs during Pregnancy and Lactation Schaefer, C et al. Academic Inc ISBN: 0124080782 3rd 2014 ££ A Drugs in Pregnancy and Lactation Briggs, G et al Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins ISBN: 1451190824 10th 2014 plus online ££ £££* A Online also via , Register using access code inside front cover. Very limited information regarding drug use during breastfeeding. Quarterly updates are available via the online access (also integrated as part of the monograph content). Now also available via Medicines Complete *UKMi deal* Legal and ethical Dale and Applebe’s Pharmacy and Medicines Law Applebe, G & Wingfield, J Pharmaceutical Press ISBN: 9780853699897 10th 2013 Plus online £ C If held within pharmacy this is acceptable for QA. Also available electronically via Medicines Complete. *UKMi Deal* Microbiology The Sanford to Antimicrobial Therapy Gilbert et al. Antimicrobial Therapy, Inc ISBN-10: 1930808844 2015 Plus online £ paper £ online C Available in a range of formats. The digital editions are preferable as they are updated regularly. Hopkins ABX Guide Unbound Medicine, Inc. Online £ Online for single user annual licence C Updated monthly
Kucers’. The Use of Antibiotics Grayson ML ASM Press & Hodder Arnold ISBN: 9780340927670 6th 2010 Plus online £££££ £££ online A Available either as a two volume book (providing free ebook access), or via MedicinesComplete subscription. *UKMi Deal*, (NOTE: Online version is updated in line with each publication, about every 4 years) Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases Mandell GL, Bennett JE, & Dolin R. ELSEVIER Churchill Livingstone ISBN: 978-1455748013 8th 2014 ££££ paper ££££ electronic A Available either as a two volume book (providing free online access to full text), or an (PDF or ePub formats). Ophthalmology Moorfields Eye Hospital – Pharmacists Handbook Moorfields Pharmaceuticals ISBN: 0955277612 2006 £ A Paediatrics Neonatal Formulary: Drug Use in Pregnancy & the First Year of Life Northern Neonatal Network Blackwell Publishing ISBN-10: 1118819594 7th 2014 £ C An is also available: Updates available at Paediatrics Pediatric and Neonatal Dosage Handbook (Pediatric Lexicomp) American Pharmacists Association (LexiComp Incorporated) ISBN: 9781591953494 22nd ££ A Data extracted from the parent Lexicomp site. Consider for those not subscribing to Lexicomp. Paediatric Care online RCPCH Partnership Group online £ A A decision support tool for Centres with a substantial paediatric element. Palliative Care A to Symptom Relief in Palliative Care Regnard, CFB & Dean, M Radcliffe Medical Press ISBN: 9781846193569 6th 2010 £ A Palliative Care Formulary (PCF5) Twycross R and Wilcock A. Palliativedrugs.com ISBN: 9780955254796 Available from 5th 2014 plus online £ Book £ online C The syringe driver compatibility tables are free to access online, using login. PCF5 also contains selected information from Symptom Management in Advanced Cancer (discontinued in 2014).
Electronic PCF5 is available via . It is freely available to those with NHS Education Scotland ATHENS access via Pharmaceutical Handbook of Pharmaceutical Excipients Rowe RC et al Pharmaceutical Press ISBN: 978085711027 5 7th (2012) ££££ A Also available via Medicines Complete: *UKMi deal* Check if local manufacturing unit already has access to this. Pharmacokinetics Basic Clinical Pharmacokinetics Winter, ME Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins ISBN: 9780781779036 5th 2009 Plus online £ C Can also access content online via: Access details are in the inside cover of the book. Pregnancy At least two resources should be used for all pregnancy enquiries. Note, some resources include both pregnancy and lactation information. See also list. * Note either Briggs or Schaeffer can be purchased as the Core resource for Pregnancy enquiries—it is not necessary for Centres to have access to both * Drugs during Pregnancy and Lactation Schaefer, C et al. Academic Press Inc ISBN: 0124080782 3rd 2014 ££ C * see note above * Drugs in Pregnancy and Lactation Briggs, G et al Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins ISBN: 1451190824 10th 2014 Plus online ££ £££* C Online also via , Register using access code inside front cover. Quarterly updates are available via the online access (also integrated as part of the monograph content). * see note above * Now also available via Medicines Complete *UKMi deal* Handbook of Obstetric Medicine Nelson-Piercy, C ISBN: 9781482241921 5th 2015 £ A
Drugs and the Liver. A guide to drug handling in liver dysfunction. North-Lewis P. Pharmaceutical Press ISBN: 9780853697107 1st 2008 £ C Covers background information on function, the principles of drug use in liver disease and worked examples of common questions. Surgery Oxford Handbook of Clinical Surgery McLatchie GR et al. Oxford Medical Pubs. ISBN: 978-0199699476 4th 2013 £ A Therapeutics and medicine Applied Therapeutics: The Clinical Use of Drugs* Koda-Kimble MA et al Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins ISBN: 9781451175769 10th 2012 £££ C *UKMi recommends that at least one of these resources is purchased. If only one is kept it should be a UK text e.g. Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics, Clinical Medicine. The choice of texts selected is left to the individual centre, taking into account potential usefulness and user groups (e.g. diploma students, etc) ∆This is a condensed but comprehensive and more up to date version of Goodman and Gilman’s Pharmacological of Therapeutics. Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics* Walker, R & Wittlesea C. Elsevier ISBN: 9780702042935 5th 2011 £ Goodman and Gilman’s Pharmacologic-al of Therapeutics* Brunton L et al McGraw Hill ISBN: 978-0071624428 12th 2011 £££ Goodman and Gilman’s Manual of Pharmacology Therapeutics*∆ Hilal-Dandon R & Brunton L. McGraw Hill ISBN-10: 007176917X 2nd 2014 £ Clinical Medicine* Kumar, P & Clark, M Saunders (W.B.) Co Ltd ISBN: 978-0702044991 8th 2012 ££ Oxford Textbook of Medicine Warrell DA, Cox TM, JD Oxford University Press ISBN: 5th 2010 Plus online £££££ A Most hospital libraries hold this resource. Also available online: Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine Longmore, M et al Oxford University ISBN: 9th 2014 £ C Drugdex Database Thomson Healthcare (USA) Online £££££ C Online via Lexi-Comp via . NB. See . Lexi-Comp Lexi-Comp Inc. (USA) Online £££££ Travel