{"id":35562,"date":"2019-01-21T06:53:08","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T06:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/?p=35562"},"modified":"2019-01-22T07:30:21","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T07:30:21","slug":"bashh-bhiva-hivpa-and-nhivna-statement-on-a-no-deal-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/35562","title":{"rendered":"BASHH, BHIVA, HIVPA and NHIVNA statement on a no-deal Brexit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">Joint press release<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\"><b>The following statement was issued by four professional HIV organisations on clinical approaches to a no-deal Brexit. This statement optimistically suggests that pharmaceutical companies will carry the burden of planning and that HIV positive people only need to hold an additional month of medicines.<\/b><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"HTBsubhead4subheadinarticle\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Statement<\/span><\/h4>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">In 2018 the Department for Health and Social Care, in preparation for a no deal Brexit, wrote to pharmaceutical companies that supply UK medicines from, or via, Europe. Companies have been asked to stock\u00a0at least six additional weeks supply, over and above their business as usual stocks, by 29 March 2019. We are confident this extra stock will allow usual duration prescriptions for everyone, even if there are short-term supply issues after March. Additional contingency planning has assessed specific antiretrovirals at risk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Trust pharmacies, home delivery companies and community pharmacy partners should\u00a0not stockpile additional antiretrovirals beyond business as usual stock\u00a0&#8211; pharmaceutical companies are responsible for holding extra supplies. Clinicians do not need to issue longer, or earlier than usual, prescriptions and patients should be reassured that there is no need for concern about the supply of their medication and therefore no need to stockpile. Changes to predicted use of drugs could risk continuity of supply.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">As is normal current practice, patients should be advised to ensure they have a buffer supply of medication to last\u00a0one month\u00a0beyond their next clinic appointment and to ensure their appointment is booked to reflect this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"HTBreference-noindent\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Reference<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"HTBreference-noindent\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">BASHH, BHIVA, HIVPA and NHIVNA statement on management of antiretroviral supplies in preparation for a no-deal Brexit Scenario.\u00a0(11 January 2019).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bhiva.org\/management-of-antiretroviral-supplies-in-preparation-for-a-no-deal-Brexit-scenario\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">https:\/\/www.bhiva.org\/management-of-antiretroviral-supplies-in-preparation-for-a-no-deal-Brexit-scenario<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joint press release The following statement was issued by four professional HIV organisations on clinical approaches to a no-deal Brexit. This statement optimistically suggests that pharmaceutical companies will carry the burden of planning and that HIV positive people only need &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-treatment-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}