Drugs & treatments
You have the right to drugs and treatments that
have been recommended by NICE3 for use in the NHS, if your doctor
says they are clinically appropriate for you.
You have the right to expect local decisions on
funding of other drugs and treatments to be made rationally
following a proper consideration of the evidence. If the local NHS
decides not to fund a drug or treatment you and your doctor feel
would be right for you, they will explain that decision to you.
You have the right to receive the vaccinations
that the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation recommends
that you should receive under an NHS-provided national immunisation
programme.
MEDICINES AND PRESCRIBING
The Joint Prescribing and Medicines Management Group
(JPG) was set-up in 2003. Its purpose is to ensure that we
make fair, cost-effective and consistent decisions on the medicines
and treatments that we use in City and Hackney. This is a joint
group between NHS City and Hackney and the Homerton University
Foundation Hospital and therefore has a membership with healthcare
professionals and managers from both organisations.
The attached documents provide more information on how local
decisions regarding medicines are made locally.
JPG ethical
framework
JPG terms of reference and membership
For more information, please contact Jas Khambh, Senior
Pharmaceutical Adviser Jasbinder.Khambh@chpct.nhs.uk