Iron Chelation Agents

Iron chelation medicines are used to remove excess iron from the body when it builds up over time. This page provides information on the use and management of these medicines for people with iron overload.

The prescribing guidance, formularies, pathways and information on this website have transferred from the predecessor organisations that now form NHS Central East ICB.

Guidance may not be available for all clinical topics or geographic areas. Where guidance is available, it is clearly identified as applying to Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes (BLMK), Cambridgeshire and Peterborough (C&P), Hertfordshire or Central East (CE).

Guidance labelled Central East (CE) has been harmonised and approved for use across NHS Central East ICB. Where CE guidance is not available, local arrangements for BLMK, C&P or Hertfordshire remain in place.

For Hertfordshire prescribing guidance, please visit: www.hweclinicalguidance.nhs.uk

Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes

Iron chelation agents for the management of iron overload in transfusion dependent low to intermediate 1 risk myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) – Prescribing Guidance (pdf)