Accessing local guidance and resources
Before you begin, have you completed:
Introduction
You may need to use a variety of sources of information to support you in your professional decision making. The sources may be local or national and knowing where to start your search may seem overwhelming at first. Take a look at the collated list of resources here to get started.
Accessing local guidance and resources
It is important that you are familiar with your organisational and workplace policies and standard operating procedures (SOPs).
Regardless of the setting you work in, there is likely to be local guidance available. For example, your local area prescribing committee may have guidance including antibiotic prescribing in primary care (based on local antimicrobial resistance patterns), shared care guidelines and a local formulary. Do you know how to find this information?
Practice point
Find out how to access guidance from your local area prescribing committee. You may need to ask colleagues in your workplace or your local clinical commissioning group (CCG) or primary care network (PCN) medicines optimisation team. Take a look at what is available and think about how you might use it.