example, literacy or medication adherence, language difficulties, counselling about dexterity problems, appropriate impaired sight, or management of cognitive deficiencies; medicines and current medical conditions, (i) Take or are about reporting of significant to commence taking a adverse medicine effects narrow therapeutic and removal of out of index medicine &/or date medicines or those one requiring no longer required with monitoring; &/ or the consent of the patient. A record of all (j) Take or are about current medications to commence taking a must be provided to the medicine(s) suspected prescriber and to the of being patient unless practical inappropriately used circumstances deem that based on regional this would not be utilisation data. beneficial. The pharmacist may formally Patients are not refer and report to other eligible if they are health professionals on currently issues beyond the participating in pharmacist’s scope. The Medicines Therapy pharmacist may also Assessment or liaise with prescribers, Comprehensive patients and community
example, literacy or language difficulties, dexterity problems, impaired sight, or cognitive deficiencies; (i) Take or are about to commence taking a narrow therapeutic index medicine &/or one requiring monitoring; &/ or (j) Take or are about to commence taking a medicine(s) suspected of being inappropriately used based on regional utilisation data. Patients are not eligible if they are currently participating in Medicines Therapy Assessment or Comprehensive medication adherence, counselling about appropriate management of medicines and current medical conditions, reporting of significant adverse medicine effects and removal of out of date medicines or those no longer required with the consent of the patient. A record of all current medications must be provided to the prescriber and to the patient unless practical circumstances deem that this would not be beneficial. The pharmacist may formally refer and report to other health professionals on issues beyond the pharmacist’s scope. The pharmacist may also liaise with prescribers, patients and community