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Medicines: improving outcomes and value
Medicines Value Programme
This programme has been set up to improve health outcomes and ensure we are getting the best value from the NHS medicines bill.
Medicines optimisation
Ensuring people get the right choice of medicines, at the right time, and are engaged in the process by their clinical team.
Biosimilar medicines
The NHS is working to increase the use of best value biological medicines, including biosimilar medicines.
Information for patients
Get details on where to go if you need some help or support with your medicines.
Support for prescribers
Expert advice and services to help prescribers to make informed decisions and put patients’ needs first.
Resources
Find tools and resources for prescribers, pharmacists and procurement leads.
You may also be interested in
- Repurposing medicines in the NHS in England
- Commercial medicines
- Medicines optimisation dashboard
- Regional Medicines Optimisation Committees
- Items which should not be routinely prescribed in primary care: consultation
- Guidance on conditions for which over the counter items should not routinely be prescribed in primary care
News and blogs
COVID treatment developed in the NHS saves a million lives
Dexamethasone, an inexpensive and widely available steroid, has saved around one million lives worldwide since its discovery as an effective treatment for COVID-19 in a clinical trial in the NHS. New figures, published today, show that use of the drug has so far saved 22,000 lives in the UK and an estimated one million worldwide. […]