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Advisers
At its meeting on 23 September 2021, the Committee agreed to appoint three advisers—
Dr Helen Stagg, Reader/Associate Professor (Chancellor’s Fellow) in Infectious Disease Epidemiology at University of Edinburgh
Professor Peter Donnelly, Professor of Public Health Medicine and Director of the Sir James Mackenzie Institute at University of St Andrew...
The decision on which product to prescribe for an individual patient is a matter for the clinical judgement of the prescriber informed by advice and evidence about the medicine. S3W-25312
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
2 February 2009
This includes funding the costs of orphan and ultra-orphan drugs which have been approved for use by the Scottish Medicines Consortium, or where there has been a positive outcome following an exceptional case review.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
29 February 2008
Our work on smoking, diet and exercise will help reduce the risk of people developing osteoporosis. The Scottish Medicines Consortium has also provided advice to NHSScotland on drug therapy for the primary and secondary prevention of osteoporosis.
The most successful practices feel linked to the rest of the system. They feel linked to the acute medicine doctors in hospitals and to the social care system, which is doing all the social support.