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Defining guiding principles for processes supporting local decision making about medicines
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Document type:Guidance
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Author:National Prescribing Centre; Department of Health
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Published date:21 January 2009
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Publication format:A4
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Product number:A4 electronic only
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Gateway reference:11101
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Pages:34
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Copyright holder:Crown
The purpose of these guiding principles is to improve the consistency and quality of local decision making on medicines and to reassure patients that there will be a common, rational framework within which such decisions should be made.
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