The British National Formulary (BNF) and MedKeeper, a provider of clinical and workflow pharmacy tools, have announced a partnership to extend support for local content management by providing a locally installable intranet version. The 61st edition of the BNF will include content from both BNF and BNF for Children (BNFC) together with a tool for the management of local content, building on MedKeeper's experience in the development of pharmacy software. This is expected to contribute to safer prescribing, dispensing and administration of medicines by improving point of care access to BNF guidance and local formulary information.
The BNF seeks to provide up-to-date, practical guidance on prescribing, dispensing and administering medicines. It aims to enable healthcare professionals to maximise the benefits of drug treatment and minimise the risks, while encouraging good compliance with treatment. The publication is supposedly consulted over three million times a week and regarded as the number one prescribing resource by four out of five professionals in the UK Statistics taken from a Medicines Information Survey conducted by independent market research agency Kantar Health, 2010. BNFC claims to be an up-to-date and comprehensive source of guidance on how to use medicines to treat children.
The BNF is a product of a joint venture between the BMJ Group and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society. The BNFC is a product of the joint venture among the BMJ Group, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, the Neonatal and Paediatric Pharmacists Group and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society. The BNF and BNFC are published by Pharmaceutical Press and BMJ Group on behalf of the joint ventures.
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