Advice

following an abbreviated submission:

empagliflozin (Jardiance®) is accepted for use within NHSScotland.

Indication under review: in adults for the treatment of symptomatic chronic heart failure with reduced ejection fraction.

Empagliflozin offers an additional treatment choice in the therapeutic class of sodium glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitors in this indication.

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Medicine details

Medicine name:
empagliflozin (Jardiance)
SMC ID:
SMC2396
Indication:

In adults for treatment of symptomatic chronic heart failure with reduced ejection fraction.

Pharmaceutical company
Boehringer Ingelheim Ltd
BNF chapter
Cardiovascular system
Submission type
Abbreviated
Status
Accepted
Date advice published
11 October 2021