Prescribing and Medicines Management

Safe prescribing in sport is ordinary good prescribing plus the issues specific to athletes and to working away from a hospital, chief among them the anti-doping rules.

For the sport and exercise medicine (SEM) clinician, that means the right drug, dose and patient, plus an anti-doping check and proper governance of supplies at events and abroad.

This page covers:

• •Safe prescribing, interactions and the effect of medicines on exercise
• •Medicines governance, storage and travelling with medicines
• •The anti-doping check that prevents an inadvertent violation