Healthcare professionals urged to share information about patients’ medicines Information about a patient’s medicines should be shared by health and social care staff when that person moves from one care setting to another, urges new guidance.…
Medicines care plans proposed to join up NHS care An electronic “pharmaceutical care plan” should be introduced to improve the integration of care, according to a report on the future of pharmacy in Wales.…
NICE puts forward recommendations on safe use of medicinesNearly 50 recommendations on how health and social care staff and organisations can ensure medicines are used safely have been published by NICE.…
Planning for discharge: the next step for medicines reconciliation Ensuring that medicines reconciliation takes place for every patient admitted to hospital is an excellent start. But to complete the circle there needs to be a renewed focus on communication at discharge…
Getting the right medicine: a survey of haemodialysis patients in SW ScotlandThe aim of this study is to reduce the number of medicines discrepancies among haemodialysis patients.…
