Pink Book General Advice and Introduction

Prescribing Instructions for Medicines

Reviewed.

• Added Special Authority Waiver information.
• Amended non-HML medicine guidance to explicitly include Named Patient Pharmaceutical Assessment (NPPA).
• Deleted Community Medication Management Service as this has been disestablished.
• Updated Home Intravenous Antimicrobial (now Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT)) Service guidance.

Antimicrobial Guidelines

Initiatives for World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2022:

• See the national Antibiotic Amnesty bulletin outlining how to contribute to antimicrobial stewardship by supporting return of unused antimicrobials to pharmacies for safe disposal.
• See the Te Whatu Ora Waitaha Sepsis bulletin outlining ideas that incorporate antimicrobial stewardship into sepsis care.

Pharmacokinetic Table

Cilazapril

Reviewed

Enalapril

Reviewed

Quinapril

Reviewed