Implementing SGLT2 Inhibitor Prescribing Into Your Diabetes Practice

Invokana^®(canagliflozin) is indicated for the treatment of adults with insufficiently controlled type 2 diabetes mellitus as an adjunct to diet and exercise:

As monotherapy when metformin is considered inappropriate due to intolerance or contraindications
In addition to other medicinal products for the treatment of diabetes

For study results with respect to combination of therapies, effects on glycaemic control, cardiovascular and renal events, and the populations studied, please refer to section 4.4, 4.5 and 5.1 of the Invokana SmPC.

Prescribing Information can be found under Useful Resources

Implementing SGLT2 inhibitor prescribing into your diabetes practice- Alia Gilani

Senior Diabetes Clinical Pharmacist, Alia Gilani, explores the benefits of SGLT2 inhibitors in type 2 diabetes beyond glycaemic control, how to address clinical inertia and the clinical benefits of Invokana (canagliflozin) for type 2 diabetes.

This presentation was part of The Many Faces of Diabetes national webinar on the 14th of November 2023, titled “Primary Prevention in Primary Care.

Useful Resources

Alia is a Senior Diabetes Clinical Pharmacist whose interests lie in ethnic inequalities and diabetes. She helped established and run a bi-lingual medication review service in NHS Glasgow in 2002. This was the “MELT” service (Minority Ethnic Long Term medicines Service) which operated for an over a decade. The MELT was an open referral medication review service which allowed referrals to be received from both primary and secondary care. She has received several awards for her work in which the service has been recognised both locally and nationally. She has chaired the NHS Glasgow Diabetes Ethnicity and Inequalities Group in the past.

PP-IN-UK-1134 January 2024

Implementing SGLT2 Inhibitor Prescribing Into Your Diabetes Practice

Implementing SGLT2 inhibitor prescribing into your diabetes practice- Alia Gilani

Useful Resources

Alia Gilani- Senior Diabetes Clinical Pharmacist