Transcript Chronic Medication Service (CMS)

Chronic Medication
Service (CMS)
Programme
• Introduction
• Pharmaceutical Care Planning - Ray
• ePharmacy Programme – Dawn, IM & T
• Workshops – Niall, Michelle, Aileen,
What is the Chronic Medication
Service (CMS)?
• CMS is the fourth and final core element of the
Community Pharmacy Contract.
• CMS offers patients an enhanced service from
community pharmacists.
• Rx’s can be issued for up to 48 weeks
• Pharmacists can develop pharmaceutical care plans
• CMS is based on shared care between the
pharmacist and the GP.
What are the Benefits of CMS?
CMS will:
• build on and strengthen existing good pharmacy practice
• encourage joint working between GPs & CP’s
• improve patient care.
The purpose of CMS is to further develop the contribution of
community pharmacists in the management of individual
patients with long-term conditions by improving their
understanding of their medicines and working in
partnership with them and other healthcare practitioners to
maximise the clinical outcomes from their therapy.
CMS aims to:
• Improve patient care through a systematic approach to
pharmaceutical care of patients with long term
conditions.
• Formalise the role of community pharmacists to manage
patients by making better use of their skills and
expertise to improve a patient’s understanding of their
medicines.
• Maximise clinical outcomes from therapy and provide a
framework to support collaborative working between
community pharmacists, patients and GPs.
Key Messages
• The Chronic Medication Service is available in every community
pharmacy across Scotland.
• It is for people with long term conditions who require medications
on a regular basis.
• The pharmacist will work closely with the GP & patient to ensure
medicines are appropriate. The aim being to improve patients’
understanding of their medicines and give them more control over
their condition.
• Continuity of care – as patients will be regularly visiting their local
community pharmacy they will develop a better relationship with
the pharmacist.
• There will be less medicines wastage as pharmacists will have
regular contact with patients and ensure that any prescribed
medicines are necessary and suitable.
CMS aims to ensure systems are
in place to:
• Minimise adverse drug reactions
• Address existing/ prevent potential problems with
medicines
• Provide structured follow up
• Provide referral interventions as and when
necessary.