One year on: has it been the right medicine for Scotland? By Jonathan Buisson
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"The right medicine: a strategy for pharmaceutical care in Scotland" was published a year ago. This feature looks at how it is being implemented and what progress still needs to be made. The Journal visited Tayside and Fife to see two of its key pilot schemes, direct supply and repeat dispensing, in action. Other articles describe how they are moving towards regional and then national roll-out
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Jonathan Buisson is news editor of
The Pharmaceutical Journal |
 Strategy makes steady progress Individual
parts of the strategy are progressing well. The challenge will be to make these into a greater
whole...[more]
Tayside direct supply project moves towards full regional roll-out An
increasing number of pharmacists in Tayside are now prescribing under the "DirectCare at the Chemist" scheme.
In Arbroath and Montrose, the scheme is already well established. More urban areas will adopt the scheme
this year...[more]
Repeat dispensing will merge with ETP and medicines management Master
and slave prescriptions await dispensing at Elie Pharmacy, Fife. To extend the scheme nationally, paper
prescriptions will need to be replaced by electronic ones and dispensing integrated with medicines management...[more]
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