This guideline offers best practice advice on the care of all people who are using medicines and also those who are receiving suboptimal benefit from medicines. 

The full list of recommendations is in section 1.

The full text is available at this link

This guideline was developed by the NICE Medicines and Prescribing Centre. The Centre worked with a Guideline Development Group, comprising healthcare professionals (including consultants, GPs and nurses), patients and carers, and technical staff, which reviewed the evidence and drafted the recommendations. The recommendations were finalised after public consultation. The methods and processes for developing NICE clinical guidelines are described in the guidelines manual. NICE produces guidance, standards and information on commissioning and providing high‑quality healthcare, social care, and public health services. NICE guidance or other products may include references to organisations or people responsible for commissioning or providing care that may be relevant only to England.