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The right medicine
— improving care in care homes | | Corporate Author | Royal Pharmaceutical Society |
| Publisher | Royal Pharmaceutical Society, London, February 2016 |
| Pages | 11 pp |
| Source | Download: http://www.rpharms.com/promoting-pharmacy-pdfs/car... |
| Keywords | Drugs ; Care homes ; Management [care] ; Multi disciplinary ; Standards of provision ; England. |
| Annotation | Too many care home residents are taking medicines which do them more harm than good. At a time when every pound of NHS resource needs to be scrutinised, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) believes that a far more efficient system would have one pharmacist, as part of a multidisciplinary team, responsible for the whole system of medicines and their use within a care home. The RPS outlines evidence to demonstrate that this would improve care, reduce NHS medicines waste, and reduce the serious harm that can be caused by inappropriate use of medicines. This includes consideration of issues such as reducing falls (and involving a pharmacist in assessing residents' falls risk), and improving end of life care. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-160315002 P |
| Classmark | LLD: KW: QA: 3DM: 583: 82 * |
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