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Morecambe Bay
Community Eyecare Scheme (MECS)
Formulary
This policy assumes that the practitioner is a community Optometrist without additional
prescribing or therapeutic supply qualifications. Consequently the MECS formulary is
confined to the therapeutic agents that such a practitioner can either supply, for which
they can write a Signed Order, or which the patient can purchase Over The Counter from
their Pharmacist.
The Optometrist may also request these products on prescription for eligible patients by
producing a prescription request using Optomanager and sending this to the patient’s
GP. However you should also consider that this process is likely to take longer,
especially at weekends or bank holidays, and so may result in an inappropriate delay in
the patient starting treatment (e.g. where infection is present).
Category
Drug
Chloramphenicol
Formulation
0.5% Eye Drops
(10ml)
Chloramphenicol
1% Eye Ointment (4g)
Hypromellose
0.3% Eye Drops
(10ml)
1% Eye Drops (10ml)
0.2% Gel (10g)
Antibacterial
Lubricant
Hypromellose
Carbomer 980
VitA-POS
(Liquid paraffin /
Retinal palmitate)
Sodium Cromoglicate
Antiallergy
Antazoline
Xylometazoline
Formulary
This revision: 8th Feb 2017
Eye Ointment
2% Eye Drops
(13.5ml)
0.5%/0.05% Eye
Drops
Usual Dose
1 drop every 2 hours
for 48 hours then 1
drop four times daily
for a further 3 days
Apply 3-4 times a day
for 5 days
Apply as required
Apply as required
Apply 3-4 times a
day, or as required
Apply once daily at
night
Apply 4 times a day
Apply 2-3 times a day
for max. 7 days