The NICE Medicines and Prescribing Centre has been commissioned to develop supporting good practice guidance on local medicines formularies.
This is likely to be published by the end of 2012. In advance of the publication of that guidance Dr Keith Ridge, Chief Pharmaceutical Officer, has written a letter to NHS acute, mental health and primary care chief pharmacists, England and strategic health authority pharmacy and prescribing leads, encouraging action to review local formulary processes to begin implementation of the Innovation Health and Wealth (IHW) action.