Medication review

How to conduct a clinical review of a patient’s medicines

Best practice principles and practical advice for structuring medication reviews and approaching conversations with patients.…

NHS England to remove financial incentives for structured medication reviews in 2023/2024

Incentives to switch patients to environmentally friendly inhalers and to prescribe more patients with edoxaban will also be scrapped.…

PJ view: Pharmacists must be allowed more time for structured medication reviews

Without enough time dedicated to structured medication reviews, pharmacists are unable to carry out vital work leading to patient care being compromised.…

NHS lead to investigate pharmacists being given just ten minutes for medication reviews

Pharmacists say that quantity is being favoured over quality after primary care networks were offered financial incentives of around £16,400 to review high-risk patients.…

Pharmacist medication reviews not putting patient outcomes first, claim researchers

A series of interviews with pharmacists revealed that structured medication reviews were not being treated as a priority and corporate incentives were being put before patient outcomes.…

Patients are at risk of falling through gaps in anticoagulation care — but pharmacy can help

The pandemic has brought with it big changes for patients who require anticoagulation, but pharmacists’ involvement means no patient should be overlooked, says anticoagulation pharmacist Frances Akor.…

Primary care network pharmacists to start delivering medication reviews earlier than planned in ‘window of opportunity’ before winter

A letter from NHS England asks NHS organisations to speed up the return to more normal levels of non-COVID-19 health services.…

Evaluation of the impact of pharmacist polypharmacy reviews within the Govan Social and Healthcare Integration Partnership (SHIP) project

Providing pharmacist-led medicines reviews to patients in one of the most deprived areas in Scotland to reduce the health inequality gap.…

Bridging interventions best for hospital discharge of older adults

Interventions supporting medicines continuity in older people are most successful in preventing hospital readmission when they bridge the gap between hospital discharge and returning home.…

Pharmacy support needed early on in hospital stay for medication-related problems

Patients in hospital need pharmacy input early on in their stay for medication-related problems, a study in the International Journal of Pharmacy Practice has found.…