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Syringe Driver Survey Database migration to MedicinesComplete - January 2023

Syringe Driver Survey Database has moved to MedicinesComplete and is no longer available on palliativedrugs.com.

It has been renamed to PCF’s Syringe Driver Database and is now accessed through Drug Compatibility Checker.

Drug Compatibility Checker, through MedicinesComplete is a new tool providing essential compatibility knowledge to support the administration of injectable drugs combining published data and clinical practice reports.

Find out more about Drug Compatibility Checker:https://about.medicinescomplete.com/publication/drug-compatibility-checker/

If you have a subscription to Palliative Care Formulary through MedicinesComplete, you will have access to PCF’s Syringe Driver Database through Drug Compatibility Checker, at no charge through 2023. 

To contribute to PCF’s Syringe Driver Database please continue to submit a clinical practice report using palliativedrugs.com here: https://www.palliativedrugs.com/syringe-driver-database.html

To learn more about a subscription to the Palliative Care Formulary through MedicinesComplete, please contact us here: https://info.medicinescomplete.com/sales

If you have any questions regarding access to PCF’s Syringe Driver Database or would like to renew your subscription to Palliative Care Formulary, please contact pharmpress-support@rpharms.com.


Care of the dying: NICE guideline consultation

30th July 2015

NICE have published a draft guideline for consultation for the care of the dying adult (closing 9 September 2015). The guideline includes anticipatory prescribing, assisted hydration and the pharmacological management of pain, breathlessness, nausea and vomiting, anxiety, delirium, and noisy respiratory secretions. In addition, there is an appendix with tables of suggested drugs, doses and routes of delivery for use by non-specialists.

Editor’s note: We encourage UK members to respond to this consultation. In addition, we would like to request that if you feel it is appropriate, suggesting the on-line Palliative Care Formulary be listed as suitable ‘relevant professional guidance’, would help in our endeavours to secure a national subscription and provide, free-access for health professionals in England and Wales.

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