The General Medical Council (GMC) has proposed, for the first time, that doctors may prescribe a cheaper off-label alternative to a licensed medicine, provided it is approved in authoritative clinical guidelines and is equally safe and effective.
The proposal is included in draft guidance, entitled Good practice in prescribing and managing medicines and devices, which is now out for consultation and is intended to replace the GMC's 2008 guidance, Good practice in prescribing medicines. The proposed new guidance was approved by the Council's Standards and Ethics Committee following a process which included a scoping consultation, conducted from September 2010 to January 2011 and involving around 80 organisations, to identify key themes and issues for it to cover.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Doctors can consider cost when prescribing off-label, GMC proposes
via pharmatimes.com
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