The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 271 No 7270 p485
11 October 2003

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Portable oxygen on the NHS

Community pharmacies in Scotland will be able to supply portable oxygen cylinders on the National Health Service from April next year.

At the same time, the threshold for prescribing oxygen concentrators, rather than cylinders of gas, is to be cut from 15 hours daily usage to eight hours. Portable cylinders will be prescribable to both cylinder and concentrator patients.