NICE GUIDELINES

[tomdickharry]

I have just read this and am interested to hear more....

"The BP directs that when vitamin B12 injection is

prescribed or demanded, hydroxocobalamin injection

shall be dispensed or supplied."

[wedgewood]

I’ve read the guidelines and hadn’t noticed that ! Obviously going on blended knee isn’t the right tactic ! I’ll have to try demanding !

[Myoldcat]

So clearly we all just need to be more DEMANDING!! 😉

[helvella]

I've always read it to refer to the fact that medicines are not always prescribed.

For example, in a hospital scenario a doctor might want a patient to be given a medicine, a drip, whatever and they will not write an individual prescription for that. Most obviously, in an Accident and Emergency context it might well be essential to get the medicine into the patient. "Give patient 5 mL of [ some medicine or other ]". And that is what is meant by "demanded". (Even if it should be written up as having been applied, injected, infused, or whatever - for the record.)

The language was chosen to ensure they did not inadvertently exclude non-prescription scenarios - simply by using phraseology that was too specific.

However, that is my simplistic reading based on nothing more than guesswork and (hopefully) a little bit of logic.

[tomdickharry in reply to helvella]

That's what I was wondering about, many thanks.

[helvella in reply to tomdickharry]

I prefer the replies by  wedgewood and  Myoldcat - at least they raise a chuckle.