Melatonin

Melatonin is used in the management of sleep disorders in selected patient groups, including children and young people where clinically appropriate. This page provides prescribing, formulary and monitoring information to support the safe, effective and appropriate use of melatonin therapy.

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

Melatonin Prescribing Support Information – For use in Children & Young People (pdf)

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

Melatonin Prescribing Formulation Choice – Paediatrics (pdf)

Melatonin Prescribing Support Document – Children and Adolescents (pdf)