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New Medicine Service

noun/njuː ˈmɛdsɪn ˈsɜːvɪs/

C1CEFR level
80/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

A pharmacy service offering follow-up support to patients newly started on a medicine for a long-term condition.

I've signed him up for the New Medicine Service so we can check how he's tolerating the anticoagulant in a fortnight.

Similar: NMS

Topic: Pharmacy practice in Medical English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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