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Brand Name Search

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A customer may walk into your community pharmacy, requesting a brand that you unheard of before, such as Vocinti or "Cezti". However, with the proliferation of biosimilars and liposomal or pegylated forms, health care professionals are now encouraged to communicate using product name for certain circumstances (e.g.

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Taking stock of NHS medicines optimisation

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Promoting automatic substitution of, for example, biosimilars on formularies and registers could accelerate conversion to use of biosimilars, releasing significant financial savings. But in some areas of prescribing national leadership is needed to accelerate and support local systems’ medicines optimisation efforts.

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The information provided is meant to act as a guide and should not substitute professional clinical judgement. insulins, inhalers, GTN, transdermal patches, etc.) .