In January 2007, the North of Tyne Area Prescribing Committee was established when the Newcastle Drug and Therapeutics Committee merged with the Northumberland and North Tyneside Drug and Therapeutics Committee.
Following the merger of Newcastle North and East, Newcastle West and Gateshead CCGs, the committee joined with with the Gateshead Medicines Management Committee, and later with North Cumbria CCG , North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS trust and Cumbria Partnership NHS Foundation Trust to form the North of Tyne, Gateshead and North Cumbria Area Prescribing Formulary
The formulary serves the following participating organisations:
- Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (NUTH)
- Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust (NTWT)
- Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHCT)
- NHS Northumberland Clinical Commissioning Group
- NHS North Tyneside Clinical Commissioning Group
- NHS Newcastle Gateshead CCG
- Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust
- North Cumbria CCG
- North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust