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Time-sensitive medicine
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NICE Guideline NG67 - Managing medicines for adults receiving social care in the community
A medicine that needs to be given or taken at a specific time, where a delay in receiving the dose or omission of the dose may lead to serious patient harm, for example, insulin injections for diabetes or specific medicines for Parkinson's disease.
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