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Comparison of staffing establishments in hospital pharmacies in England

This study aims to develop a benchmark for hospital pharmacy staffing establishments in England in terms of total staffing and skill mix.…

Application of Lean principles can reduce inpatient prescription dispensing times

This study aims to reduce average inpatient prescription dispensing times to less than one hour without increasing staffing levels, dispensing error rates or adversely affecting patient safety in any way.…

An evaluation by patients of pharmacist-led medicines management in southern England

This study aims to assess patient satisfaction with the domiciliary service provided by the medicines management team within the Woodlands elderly resource team in Poole, Dorset. This team aims to prevent hospital admission, and to improve the patient experience of pharmaceutical care.…

Care home managers’ views of services provided by community pharmacies

This article aims to determine care home managers’ views of the services provided by community pharmacists, by means of a confidential self-administered postal survey involving 2,000 managers of care homes for the elderly in four regions of England.…

Do patients perceive any benefit from medicines use reviews offered to them in community pharmacies?

This article aims to determine whether patients benefit following medicines use reviews. Postal questionnaires were used for the study, which involved 152 patients who had MURs in a community pharmacy in Derby.…

An audit of the completeness and accuracy of allergy-status documentation

This audit aims to assess whether or not the allergy status and the nature of the allergy for patients admitted to Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust were recorded accurately. In addition, to determine if patients with true allergies were wearing a red identification bracelet as r…

A report into the uptake of patient access schemes in the NHS

This article aims to assess the impact of the introduction of patient access schemes for cancer medicines on front-line NHS staff.…

Does secondary care impact on primary care prescribing performance?

This article aims to examine the influence of hospital prescribing activity on primary care prescribing activity for statins and for angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin-2 receptor antagonists. Data were sourced from IMS Health’s dataset.…

Comparing the use of inhalation anaesthetics

This article aims to examine the use of isoflurane, sevoflurane and desflurane across hospitals in England and explore whether the data can be compared for benchmarking purposes.…

Getting the right medicine: a survey of haemodialysis patients in SW Scotland

The aim of this study is to reduce the number of medicines discrepancies among haemodialysis patients.…