Guidelines
Wirral Health Economy joined Pan Mersey APC in January 2018.
The guidelines in the table below have been approved via the local decision making committees and where relevant NICE and other national guidance has been taken into account.
Applications for new medicines
For Cheshire & Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust guidelines and policies relating to Mental Health, please visit; http://www.cwp.nhs.uk/resources/policies/ and scroll down the page to policies. Under category please select ‘Medicines Management’ and press search to show the list of the current CWP Medicines Management policies.
Individual Funding Requests
Medicines within tariff are the responsibility of hospital trusts to fund. There are a number of drugs excluded from the tariff (PbR Excluded drugs) where Primary Care are charged separately.
For PbR excluded drugs outside NICE guidance and local guidelines, individual funding requests will be considered by the Individual Funding Request Team.