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Medicines
Management
Gemma May
Norfolk and Norwich University
Hospital
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
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 Post
surgery
Assessment
 Compliance aids
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 Medicines
support service
Communication
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Computerised prescribing
 Oncology
 Renal
Computerised discharge summaries
 Medicines information
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Clinical/Cost effectiveness
Formulary
 Drugs and Therapeutics committee
 Appropriate prescribing
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 Antibiotics
 Protocols
 National
guidelines
What's to come?
Pharmacists prescribing
 The Robot
 Discharge Summaries
 Pre-admission Clinic
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Thank you