2008 NOAH Compendium now available for pharmacists

The 2008 edition of the NOAH Compendium of Data Sheets for Animal Medicines has been published. The complete edition is available for £37 from NOAH. It contains full data sheets/SPCs for products in all legal categories (POM-V through to medicines marketed under the Small Animal Exemption Scheme) from 36 companies. Products are easy to find with a choice of indexes - colour-coded to make navigation about the book easier. There is also a useful guide to the prescribing cascade, withdrawal period tables and copies of the VMD Suspected Adverse Reaction scheme forms.

Once again, NOAH has also produced two special editions which exclude POM-V medicines. AMTRA has commissioned enough of these publications for them to send the appropriate one to each person registered on its SQP lists.

But NOAH predicts their use will be wider, as they contain information on those products pharmacists may prescribe or supply without a prescription from a veterinary surgeon.

There is a version with all non-POM-V medicines, and a slimmer version containing just the companion animal and equine non-POM-V medicines.

“The companion animal and equine edition will be of particularly great value to community pharmacists who are entering the companion animal medicine market,” said NOAH chief executive Phil Sketchley.

Copies of the complete edition and these additional versions are available from NOAH. See www.noah.co.uk or www.noahcompendium.co.uk for more details.

Ends

10 January 2008

Notes for Editors

1. For further information contact Phil Sketchley or Alison Glennon at NOAH, tel. +44 (0)20 8367 3131, or visit the NOAH website.

2. The National Office of Animal Health was formed on 1 January 1986 to represent UK companies which research, develop, manufacture and market licensed animal health products. The association has 31 corporate members and 10 associate members. In 2006 the NOAH sales survey showed a total market of £373.2m, around 90% of the total UK market.