Pharmacists win share of £18.5m project funding
Pharmacists will visit patients’ homes |
Two projects involving pharmacists are among those awarded a share of £18.5m
as part of the Government's Partnerships for Older People Projects (POPP),
it was announced last week.
The POP (Providers for Older People) Stop Croydon project will deliver
information, services and support to older patients and their carers
from a mobile unit which can be parked on the street by patients’ homes.
A pharmacist will offer a medicines management and medicines use review
service, and provide services to patients with long-term conditions who
have been identified as being at risk of hospital admission.
The medicines use reviews will focus on reducing risks associated with
coronary heart disease, diabetes, stroke and medicines-related falls.
The other project, across Devon Primary Care Trust and Devon adult and
community services, will aim to create a seamless care pathway through
services provided by primary, secondary and community care. Care will
be delivered through integrated health and social care clusters organised
around groups of primary care practices and, as part of this, pharmacists
will undertake home
visits.
These projects, which will both begin in May 2007, are two of 10 that
were awarded funding in the second round of POPP pilots following the
Government’s call
for proposals (PJ, 19 March 2005, p326). |
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