OVER THE COUNTER MEDICINES

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OVER-THE-COUNTER MEDICINES

• Stephen Meldrum
• 05.ii.2008

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Drug Classification

• Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
  (RPSGB)
• Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory
  Agency (MHRA)

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Drug Classification

• Non-pharmacy products
• Pharmacy products
• Prescribed products
• Illicit street products

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Drug Classification

• Medicines (Products Other than Veterinary Drugs)
  (General Sale List) Order 1984
• Prescription Only Medicines (Human Use) Order
  1997

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Drug Classification

• General sale list medicines (GSL)
• Pharmacy medicines (P)
• Prescription-only medicines (POM)
• Medicines (Chloroform Prohibition) Order 1979

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General sale list medicines (GSL)

• Aciclovir (5, topical)
• Aspirin
• Buscopan
• Cetirizine
• Cetraben
• Clotrimazole (topical)
• Coal tar
• Diclofenac (topical)
• Dioralyte
• Diprobase
• E45 cream
• Epaderm

• Gaviscon
• Hydrocortisone (0.2, topical spray)
• Ibuprofen
• Lidocaine (topical gel/spray)
• Loperamide
• Loratadine
• Paracetamol
• Quinine sulphate
• Ranitidine
• Terbinafine (topical)

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Cold Flu Remedies

• Paracetamol 650mg
• Phenylephrine 10mg

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Cold Flu Remedies

• Paracetamol 1000mg
• Phenylephrine 12.2mg

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Cold Flu Remedies

• Aspirin 300mg
• Paracetamol 200mg
• Caffeine 45mg

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Cold Flu Remedies

• Paracetamol 1000mg
• Phenylephrine 12.2mg
• Vitamin C 60mg

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Drug Classification

• General sale list medicines (GSL)
• Pharmacy medicines (P)
• Prescription-only medicines (POM)

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Pharmacy Services

• Acute prescription service
• Repeat prescription service
• Public health service and minor ailment service

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NHS Minor Ailment Service

• Acne
• Athletes foot
• Backache
• Cold sores
• Constipation
• Cough
• Diarrhoea
• Earache
• Eczema and allergies
• Haemorrhoids
• Hayfever

• Headache
• Head lice
• Indigestion
• Mouth ulcers
• Nasal congestion
• Pain
• Period pain
• Thrush
• Sore throat
• Threadworms
• Warts and verrucae

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NHS Minor Ailment Service

• Domperidone
• Lactulose
• Miconazole (topical)
• Fexofenadine
• Sodium cromoglycate (eye drops)
• Beclometasone (nasal spray)
• Hydrocortisone (cream, 1)

• Eumovate
• Co-codamol 8/500
• Mebendazole
• Malathion
• Benzyl peroxide (2.5-10)
• Hypromellose (eye drops)
• Lacri-Lube

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• Any questions?
• No?
• Excellent.