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Prescribing Guide
Pharmacy Services produces a Prescribing Guide booklet. The booklet provides helpful hints and guidance about funding for your patients’ medicines and to help you avoid making some of the more common prescribing errors.
The latest booklet is available on the pharmacy page of the intranet. Printed copies are also available from the Liaison Pharmacist.
Topics covered in the Prescribing Guide include:
1. Prescribing standards e.g. abbreviations list
2. Prescribing on the national medication chart
3. Writing outpatient prescriptions (handwritten and electronically generated)
4. Writing Controlled Drug (CD) prescriptions
5. Warfarin charting
6. Discharge summaries
7. Access and funding of medications (e.g. Hospital Medicine List (HML), antibiotic
prescribing, New Zealand Community Pharmaceutical Schedule, Special Authority (SA) numbers, Named Patient Pharmaceutical Assessment (NPPA), supply of unregistered medicines, outpatient prescription charges).
Other useful resources:
 Ward pharmacists
 Waikato DHB Medicines Information Service, phone ext 96997
 Notes on Injectable Drugs book - in every ward medication room
Resources available on Waikato DHB intranet
1 Pharmacy Services intranet page, found through Working Here/Caring for our Patients/Clinical . Support/Pharmacy.
2 Waikato DHB’s Antimicrobial Handbook can be found on the Clinical Guidelines page or the . Find Policies and Guidelines page (under Quick Links on the right side of the screen).
3 New Zealand Formulary or MIMS via pharmacy intranet page or using the Drug Reference . icon on the home page of the intranet.
4 Waikato DHB Medicines Management Policy - on intranet home page/Finding policies and . guidelines then enter 0138 or Medicines under ‘search’.
5 A range of electronic resources available through the Library page. .