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Important information about

your medication

The National Kidney Federation (NKF) has advised AKPA of recent cases of patients being offered Advagraf instead of Prograf (or vice versa) in error by GPs or pharmacists. This highlights the importance of patients ensuring that changes to their medication should only be made by their Transplant Surgeon or Consultant Nephrologist.

Current drugs are very complex and, even though one make of drug may appear to contain the same or similar drug to another (in the above case the drug being tacrolimus) the formulations can be very different and very harmful if taken wrongly.

The NKF states very clearly that if the drug you have been prescribed or are given is not identical to the drug you usually take then DO NOT TAKE IT without getting advice from your own Renal Consultant. This applies even if the person is your GP, pharmacist, nurse or other physician.

Please click here for contact details for Addenbrooke's Hospital Renal Consultants.