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- MHRA (Medicines) Drug Alerts (Various Recipients)
- Other contacts
- Independent Healthcare Providers (registered with CAS)
- Clinical Commissioning Groups
- NHS Foundation Trusts (England) - Medical Director
- NHS Foundation Trusts (England) - Chief Executive
- Special Health Authorities
- NHS Trusts (England) - Medical Director
- CMO Urgent Messages - Non-NHS Recipients on Public Health Link
- MHRA (Medicines) Drug Alerts - Non-NHS Recipients
- Territorial CMOs in Northern Ireland, Scotland & Wales
- Regional Directors of Public Health
- Consultants in Communicable Diseases
- CMO Urgent Messages - Recipients on Public Health Link
- Director of Public Health
- NHS Trusts (England) - Chief Executive
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Interleukin-6 inhibitors (tocilizumab and sarilumab) for critically ill patients with COVID-19 pneumonia (adults)
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NHS trusts / health boards are recommended to consider prescribing either tocilizumab or sarilumab to hospitalised patients with COVID-19 pneumonia being treated with non-invasive ventilation (including high-flow nasal oxygen therapy or continuous positive airway pressure ventilation) or invasive mechanical ventilation.
Please note: we have updated the alert pdf to correct the link to the Medusa monograph.
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This alert is not relevant to Primary Care.
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