Guidelines
Wirral Health Economy joined Pan Mersey APC in January 2018. We are currently in an interim period of merging the two formularies. Please be aware there will be pathways and guidelines on the Pan Mersey APC website that were approved prior to Wirral joining Pan Mersey APC.
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.
Please Note: Documents which are past their review date will only remain on the website if they are still clinically relevant. Some secondary care policies are also included here, where relevant to primary care and where there are links within in formulary chapters.