Notes from GPG Draft PGD Consultation

"Health Care Assistants should not use PGDs". There are hundreds, if not thousands of HCAs across the country using PGDs in primary care.

PGDs quiet rightly should not be used for high risk medicines which the GPG defines as:

• Anticoagulants
• Antibiotics (allergy related)
• Injectable sedatives
• Chemotherapy
• Opiates
• Antipsychotics 
• Insulin 
• Infusion fluid

The GDG acknowledged that including more than 1 medicine may be appropriate in some circumstances, such as different medicines being options for managing a single condition, provided all legal requirements were included for each drug. For example, levonorgestrel or ulipristal acetate for emergency hormonal contraception.