Category list : All-Wales Medicines Strategy Group
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August 2015: AWMSG approvals Subscription
The following medicines have been approved for use in NHS Wales by the All Wales Medicines Strategy Group (AWMSG): brimonidine gel for treating the symptoms of moderate-to-severe, persistent facial erythema associated with rosacea; Rezolsta (darunavir and cobicistat) for use in combination with other antiretroviral medicines to treat human immunodeficiency virus-1 infection in adults; magnesium aspartate dihydrate for treating and preventing magnesium deficiency in patients aged two ...
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AWMSG medicines approvals Subscription
The following medicines have been approved for use in NHS Wales by the All Wales Medicines Strategy Group (AWMSG): Darunavir, in combination with other antiretrovirals, for treating human immunodeficiency virus-1 infection in children aged at least three years and weighing 15kg and over; peginterferon beta-1a for treating adults with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis; regorafenib for treating adults with unresectable or metastatic gastrointestinal stromal tumours who progressed ...
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July 2015: AWMSG approvals Subscription
The following medicines have been approved for use in NHS Wales by the All Wales Medicines Strategy Group (AWMSG): Fostair (beclometasone/formoterol; Chiesi) inhaler for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and Adcetris (brentuximab; Takeda) for adults with relapsed or refractory CD30+ Hodgkin lymphoma who have undergone an autologous stem cell transplant or following at least two other therapies. The drug is not recommended for treating systemic anaplastic large cell ...
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June 2015 AWMSG approvals Subscription
Adalimumab (Humira; AbbVie) can be prescribed in NHS Wales to treat active, enthesitis-related arthritis in patients aged six years and older, following its use being approved by the All Wales Medicines Strategy Group (AWMSG). The group has not recommended dapagliflozin (Forxgia; Bristol-Myers Squibb) as monotherapy for type 2 diabetes or aflibercept (Zaltrap; Sanofi) for metastatic colorectal cancer (in combination with irinotecan, ...
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AWMSG medicines approvals Subscription
The following medicines have been approved for use in NHS Wales by the All Wales Medicines Strategy Group (AWMSG): bedaquiline for pulmonary multidrug‑resistant tuberculosis in adult patients as part of an appropriate combination regimen; daclatasvir for chronic hepatitis C virus infection in adults with significant fibrosis or compensated cirrhosis (as part of combination treatment); defibrotide for severe hepatic veno-occlusive disease alongside haematopoietic stem-cell transplantation ...
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AWMSG medicines approvals Subscription
Infliximab biosimilars Inflectra (Hospira) and Remsima (Celltrion) have been approved for use in NHS Wales by the All Wales Medicines Strategy Group (AWMSG). Both can be used for any licensed indication in accordance with AWMSG or National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidance and should be prescribed by brand. The group has also approved lurasidone (Latuda; Sunovion) to treat adults with schizophrenia and Anoro Ellipta (umeclidinium and vilanterol; GlaxoSmithKline) to relieve ...
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Cabozantinib and follitropin alfa recommended in Wales Subscription
Cabozantinib has been recommended for use by the All Wales Medicines Strategy Group for progressive, unresectable, locally advanced or metastatic medullary thyroid carcinoma. The group has also approved follitropin alfa for use in NHS Wales to stimulate follicular development in women: With anovulation unresponsive to clomiphene Undergoing superovulation for assisted reproduction With severe luteinising hormone and follicle-stimulating hormone deficiency It ...
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AWMSG medicines decisions Subscription
The following medicines have been approved for use in NHS Wales by the All Wales Medicines Strategy Group (AWMSG) in January 2015: leuprorelin acetate as neoadjuvant treatment prior to radiotherapy in patients with high-risk localised or locally advanced prostate cancer; umeclidinium (Incruse) and olodaterol (Striverdi Respimat) to relieve symptoms in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; ponatinib to treat chronic phase, accelerated phase, or blast phase chronic myeloid leukaemia, ...
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Alogliptin approved for use in Wales Subscription
The following medicines have been approved for use in NHS Wales by the All Wales Medicines Strategy Group (AWMSG): alogliptin, in combination with metformin or a sulphonylurea, to treat adults with type 2 diabetes (Vipdomet — a combination tablet containing metformin and alogliptin — is also approved); bortezomib, with dexamethasone, to treat adults with progressive multiple myeloma who have received at least one previous treatment and for whom haematopoietic stem ...
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AWMSG decisions Subscription
The following medicines have not been recommended for use by the All Wales Medicines Strategy Group (AWMSG) and should not be prescribed in NHS Wales: Abiraterone (Zytiga) with prednisolone for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer in men who are asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic after androgen deprivation therapy (the drug is allowed for patients whose disease has progressed — as per National Institute ...
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