Statin counselling and prescribing cheat sheet

You know statins inside out until someone asks you why theirs is "the night-time one" and you're mid-dispense with a queue behind you.
 
This is the page for that moment.
 
One side of A4, no waffle the timing rules and why they exist, the doses you'll actually see prescribed, the interactions that force a dose cap, the monitoring schedule, and the red flags that mean stop.
 
Plus a section most references skip: the exact plain-English lines to use at the counter, for the questions patients really ask.
 
Built for UK practice and aligned to NICE and the BNF.