The Institute of Podiatrists

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Prescription Only Medicine

List of POMs that can be supplied to a podiatrist and then sold directly to a patient with the appropriate annotation

(Prescription Only – sale/supply)

  • Amorolfine hydrochloride cream where the maximum strength of the Amorolfine in the cream does not exceed 0.25 per cent by weight in weight
  • Amorolfine hydrochloride lacquer where the maximum strength of Amorolfine in lacquer does not exceed 5 per cent by weight in volume,
  • Amoxicillin,
  • Co-Codamol,
  • Co-dydramol 10/500 tablets,
  • Codeine Phosphate,
  • Erythromycin,
    • Flucloxacillin,
    • Silver Sulfadiazine,
    • Tioconazole 28%,
    • Topical hydrocortisone where the maximum strength of hydrocortisone in the medicinal product does not exceed 1 per cent by weight in weight.

    All registered podiatrists can sell, supply any GSL medicine. External GSL medicines can only be supplied during the course of a podiatrist’s professional practice.

    There are:

    • Potassium permanganate crystals or solution;
    • ointment of heparinoid and hyaluronidase; and
    • products containing, as their only active ingredients, any of the following substances, at a strength, in the case of each substance, not exceeding that specified in relation to that substance
    • 9.0 per cent Borotannic complex
    • 10.0 per cent Buclosamide
    • 3.0 per cent Chlorquinaldol
    • 1.0 per cent Clotrimazole
    • 10.0 per cent Crotamiton
    • 5.0 per cent Diamthazole hydrochloride
    • 1.0 per cent Econazole nitrate
    • 1.0 per cent Fenticlor
    • 10.0 per cent Glutaraldehyde
    • 1.0 per cent Griseofulvin
    • 0.4 per cent Hydrargaphen
    • 2.0 per cent Mepyramine maleate
    • 2.0 per cent Miconazole nitrate
    • 2.0 per cent Phenoxypropan-2-ol
    • 20.0 per cent Podophyllum resin
    • 10.0 per cent Polynoxylin
    • 70.0 per cent Pyrogallol
    • 70.0 per cent Salicylic acid
    • 1.0 per cent Terbinafine
    • 0.1 per cent Thiomersal

    List of medicines that registered podiatrists can administer with the appropriate annotation

    (Prescription Only Medicine – administration):

    •  Adrenaline, 

    • Bupivacaine hydrochloride, 

    • Bupivacaine hydrochloride with adrenaline where the maximum strength of adrenaline does not exceed 1 mg in 200 ml of bupivacaine hydrochloride, 

    • Levobupivacaine hydrochloride, 

    • Lidocaine hydrochloride, 

    • Lidocaine hydrochloride with adrenaline where the maximum strength of adrenaline does not exceed 1 mg in 200 ml of lignocaine hydrochloride, 

    • Mepivacaine hydrochloride, 

    • Methylprednisolone, 

    • Prilocaine hydrochloride, 

    • Ropivacaine hydrochloride