We do this by providing:
- Accurate, independent information and education about medicines to service users and carers
- Information and education for trust staff and other professionals
- Clinical activities to help ensure the optimum use of medicines
- Medicines optimisation to ensure the most cost-effective use is made of resources
Dispensaries
We have three locality dispensaries (based in York, Middlesbrough and Darlington), which supply and dispense medication for inpatients as well as service users who are being cared for by our community teams. Opening hours are Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm. One of the dispensaries (on rotation) is also open on a weekend to provide urgently required medication.
Medication information
You can contact the pharmacy team via email [email protected]
Policies and procedures
Many of the medicines related policies, procedures and guidelines are available in our publications section of the website.
Choice and Medication website
The trust’s Choice and Medication website offers information about medications used for mental health illnesses to help people make informed decisions about the medicines they need. Patients can use this site on their own or together with family, a carer, a doctor, nurse or pharmacist.
On the Choice and Medication website you’ll useful information on:
- Commonly asked questions about mental health medicines
- Mental health conditions and the medicines used to treat them
- Comparing the main medications that are usually prescribed for a mental health condition
- Side effects of medicines
Note: Not all the medication listed on the Choice and Medication website will be able to be prescribed in TEWV (see below)
Which medicines do we prescribe?
The National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) approves which medicines can be prescribed to patients.
They also carry out ‘technology appraisals’ which give recommendations on the use of new and existing medicines and treatments within the NHS. The NHS is legally obliged to fund and resource medicines and treatments recommended by NICE’s technology appraisals.
The list of approved medication we can prescribe for mental health conditions is called a ‘formulary’.
Our formulary (which is used Trustwide) is listed on the County Durham and Darlington formulary website. On the formulary website, use the links at the left and click on central nervous system / chapter 4 to see the approved mental health medicines. The formulary also indicates which treatments we use that have been approved by NICE.
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