Pharmacists take up offer of concordance project support
Medicines Partnership is receiving a steady stream of enquiries and applications
following its offer of support and recognition for projects in patient
partnership in medicine-taking (PJ, 10 August, p187). Enquiries from pharmacists
outnumber those from doctors or nurses.
Sponsored by the Department of Health, Medicines Partnership is a two-year
initiative to put the principles of patient partnership and concordance
into practice.
Therapy areas covered in applications received so far include multiple
sclerosis, growth deficiency and epilepsy. Patient groups include older
people and vulnerable residents of sheltered housing.
To be eligible for support, a project must promote patient partnership
by applying the principles of concordance and must generate new learning
about how to put medicines partnership into practice.
Further information about the programme is available on the Medicines
Partnership website (see below), through which applications can be made.
Requests for information may also be made to Centre for Medicines Partnership,
1 Lambeth High Street, London SE1 7JN (tel 020 7572 2474; e-mail projects@medicines-partnership.org).
• Website relaunch Medicine Partnership has recently relaunched
its website (www.medicines-partnership.org),
with information about professional development, implementation projects
and relevant policy initiatives, together with training materials and
reports to download and a database of research and journal articles on
compliance and concordance. Future developments include a toolkit for
use in medication review.
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