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Clare Morrison was The Pharmaceutical Journal's Scotland correspondent from 2002 until August 2014. Clare currently works for the NHS as a primary care pharmacist, and has previously held a variety of posts in pharmacy journalism and community pharmacy. She is a stage II member of the RPS Faculty and is qualified as an independent prescriber. Clare lives near Inverness.

Reaching for the cloud: the case for a universal digital patient record

Clare Morrison, director for RPS Scotland

Pharmacists have long called for read-write access to the patient record, with patient consent. In this blog, Clare Morrison, director for Scotland at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, makes the case for going one step beyond: holding patient records in a single, universal data cloud.…

Improving patient safety by changing a clinical pharmacy service

One NHS board in Scotland has transformed its hospital clinical pharmacy service by introducing an electronic “pharmacist early warning system”. The aim is to improve patient safety. Clare Morrison reports…

Tackling polypharmacy in frail adults

Guidance from NHS Highland on how polypharmacy, and therefore adverse drug events, among frail adults can be reduced could be useful for pharmacists everywhere…

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