The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 276 No 7400 p566
13 May 2006

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· Regulation
· Emergency contraception (3)
· Remote supervision
· Fitness to practise
· Medicines use reviews
· Council election (2)

Letters to the Editor

Medicines use reviews

Money well spent

From Mr P. S. Badham, MRPharmS

I think a lot of pharmacists may have missed the point about medicines use reviews. I see an MUR as ensuring patient compliance with the medication prescribed by the doctor, both in taking the medicine correctly, and in repeated ordering of the medicine from the surgery. It also involves ensuring that patients have no side effects that perhaps have not been reported to the doctor and answering any queries concerning their medication. Patients’ knowledge of the purpose and mode of action of their medicines is paramount to ensure proper adherence.

I do not see myself as a quasi-doctor, and I am not here to change patients’ medication. That I see as the doctor’s role. If, however, I can ensure that the medicine ordered by the doctor is taken and understood fully by the patient, then I see the MUR being necessary and money well spent.

Paul Badham
Lynton, Devon

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