Medicines Management

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Medicines Management

• Gemma May
• Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital

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Medicines Management

• Maximum benefit
• Optimise patient care
• Improve communication about medicines management
• Increase multidisciplinary involvement
• Improve the clinical and cost-effective use of
  medicines

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One stop dispensing

• One supply inpatient/discharge
• Patients own medicines (PODs)
• Medication history
• Counselling
• Discharge
• Problems

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Self-administration

• Concordance
• Rehabilitation units
• Post surgery
• Assessment
• Compliance aids
• Medicines support service

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Communication

• Computerised prescribing
• Oncology
• Renal
• Computerised discharge summaries
• Medicines information

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Clinical/Cost effectiveness

• Formulary
• Drugs and Therapeutics committee
• Appropriate prescribing
• Antibiotics
• Protocols
• National guidelines

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What's to come?

• Pharmacists prescribing
• The Robot
• Discharge Summaries
• Pre-admission Clinic

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Thank you