Medication Monitoring

If you have a prescription for:

• Methotrexate
• Leflunomide
• Azathioprine
• Ciclosporin
• Mycophenolate
• Mercaptopurine

We are changing the way we prescribe your medicines and call you in for blood tests.

• We will be increasing the quantity of the medicine to three months on your prescription, in order to better fit in with the required blood test frequency.
• If we have your mobile number and you have consented to text messages, you will be sent a reminder to book in for your blood test shortly before coming to the end of your supply of medicine. If you do not have a mobile number, then you will need to keep an eye on your medicine and book in a blood test BEFORE requesting a prescription.
• If you routinely have your blood tests done at the hospital, we can download these to your records. Please let us know if this is the case.
• In the event you run out of medicine and have not had a recent blood test, a prescription will be issued for one week, to give you time to book in.
• Regular blood tests are vital with these medicines. We need to check kidney, liver and blood cell function every three months once you are on a stable dose. At the start of treatment, these blood tests are more frequent.
• The aim of prescribing three months of these medicines at a time is to help better regulate the timing of blood tests.