KEY ACTIONS STRATEGY REFERENCES – KEY ACTION 1 Delivering a pharmacist led risk stratified approach to the provision of appropriate support, information and advice with supply of medicines (Chapter 1) A risk stratification process should be part of SOPs in all community pharmacies to identify patients who require specific information at the point of supply. Patients/carers should receive appropriate advice and information when prescription medicines are supplied, asked if they have any questions about their medicines, advised of changes to the presentation of their medicines and receive reassurance that the efficacy is the same. All patients should be asked if they require all their medicines when repeat prescriptions are collected from the community pharmacy. Community pharmacies should be included in existing medicines governance arrangements and have an active role in incident reporting. KEY ACTION 2 Optimising medicines use Safer Transitions Service (Chapter 1) A pharmacy service should be delivered linked to the Integrated Medicines Management Service in Trusts to support improved medicines management during transitions supported by arrangements for information sharing and access to ECR. Acute Medicines Services (Chapter 1) Effective arrangements for out of hours/emergency access to medicines, including arrangements for palliative and end of life care should be put in place. To include the delivery of an acute service for out of hours access to medicines during 2015/16.
KEY ACTIONS – STRATEGY REFERENCES KEY ACTION 1 Delivering a pharmacist led risk stratified approach to the provision of appropriate support, information and advice with supply of medicines (Chapter 1) A risk stratification process should be part of SOPs in all community pharmacies to identify patients who require specific information at the point of supply. Patients/carers should receive appropriate advice and information when prescription medicines are supplied, asked if they have any questions about their medicines, advised of changes to the presentation of their medicines and receive reassurance that the efficacy is the same. All patients should be asked if they require all their medicines when repeat prescriptions are collected from the community pharmacy. Community pharmacies should be included in existing medicines governance arrangements and have an active role in incident reporting. KEY ACTION 2 Optimising medicines use Safer Transitions Service (Chapter 1) A pharmacy service should be delivered linked to the Integrated Medicines Management Service in Trusts to support improved medicines management during transitions supported by arrangements for information sharing and access to ECR. Acute Medicines Services (Chapter 1) Effective arrangements for out of hours/emergency access to medicines, including arrangements for palliative and end of life care should be put in place. To include the delivery of an acute service for out of hours access to medicines during 2015/16.
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