Patient information leaflets
Scottish Palliative Care Guidelines
The national palliative care guidelines make recommendations about the use of various drugs. These recommendations should be considered alongside the information contained below.
It is recognised that some medicines will be initiated by a specialist and care may transfer to a generalist setting. The presentation, indications, doses and routes of administration may be unfamiliar to practitioners and medicines information sheets will be made available. The medicine information sheets are colour coded to indicate medicines used under specialist guidance and those for more general use.
Red– For medicines normally initiated and used under specialist guidance
Amber – For medicines normally initiated by a specialist but may be used by generalists
Green – For medicines routinely initiated and used by generalists
The following medicines are coded green
- Buccal midazolam
- Hyoscine hydrobromide
- Levomepromazine
- Lorazepam
- Opioids for breathlessness
- Rectal diazepam
The following medicines are coded amber
The following medicines are coded red