{"id":6874,"date":"2018-01-13T16:45:11","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T16:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apomorphine.info\/?p=6874"},"modified":"2018-01-13T16:45:11","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T16:45:11","slug":"facilitating-adoption-of-off-patent-repurposed-medicines-into-nhs-clinical-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apomorphine.info\/?p=6874","title":{"rendered":"Facilitating adoption of off-patent, repurposed medicines into NHS clinical practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December 2017, The Association of Medical Research Charities\u00a0published a<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"> <a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amrc.org.uk\/publications\">new report<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>which signals the UK government&#8217;s intention to make it easier to facilitate the adoption of off-patent, repurposed medicines into NHS clinical practice.<\/p>\n<p>Medical research is increasingly focusing on how existing medicines, licensed for use in treating particular conditions, can also be investigated for use in treating other conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Apomorphine is one such medicine. Out of patent it&#8217;s used to treat Parkinson&#8217;s Disease and currently being investigated for smoking ceesation.\u00a0 As the history on this website shows it also has a long and safe track record for use as an addiction treatment for alcohol.<\/p>\n<p>The report provides insights about the repurposing of off-patent medicines, including how the drug regulation system and national bodies can support it and how to navigate the different routes that support access to repurposed drugs for NHS patients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 2017, The Association of Medical Research Charities\u00a0published a new report\u00a0which signals the UK government&#8217;s intention to make it easier to facilitate the adoption of off-patent, repurposed medicines into NHS clinical practice. Medical research is increasingly focusing on how existing medicines, licensed for use in treating particular conditions, can also be investigated for use in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apomorphine.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apomorphine.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apomorphine.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apomorphine.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apomorphine.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6874"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/apomorphine.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6877,"href":"https:\/\/apomorphine.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6874\/revisions\/6877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apomorphine.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apomorphine.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apomorphine.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}