Thursday 13 July 2006

Drug & Therapeutics Bulletin

The Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin is no longer available.

I understand that the Department of Health took this decision against the background of a general drive to devolve activity away from the central Department and also because of the need to review spending priorities against a tight resource position for Department of Health central budgets for 2006/07. The DoH has been required to prioritised investment in prescribing advice and information and identified the British National Formulary, the British National Formulary for Children and the National Prescribing Centre as their highest priorities for investment in 2006/07 and beyond. Renewing the contract for the DTB would have meant dropping one of these priorities.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.