| Evolution of medicines management across primary and secondary care
Ken Ball and Dr Iain Grainger describe how they established a medicine
management group in North Cumbria and the benefits that it has
brought
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"PSNC" project moves forward
Helen Rhodes updates readers on the Community Pharmacy Medicines Management
Project
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How community pharmacists have become involved in palliative care
Three pharmaceutical care model schemes
were established in 1999 by The Royal Pharmaceutical Society in Scotland
in collaboration with the Scottish Executive. One of the areas targeted
was palliative care
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Toolkit to help with single assessment
A tool to aid implementation of the single assessment process for older people has been developed as a result of collaboration between
three pharmacists and a social scientist
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Medication review one year on
Gabrielle Clezy describes what progress has been made and what has been learnt
from the medication
review service introduced in Surrey over the past year
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Face to face with elderly patients
Medication review can take many guises — from a cursory glance at a patient's
notes to a detailed face-to-face conversation. Elizabeth Stanford describes her
experiences when she started doing reviews based on face-to-face interviews for
the first time
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And how many pharmacists are needed to conduct medication reviews?
David Kaye examines the workforce implications of carrying out full medication
reviews
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Putting some sense into brand-switching of diltiazem
In many cases, different generics have the same clinical effects as each other — but
not in the case of diltiazem. Monica Sharma Kapoor describes how she tried to
simplify matters for patients in Doncaster
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What you need to do to become a full member of the faculty
After consultation, the Faculty of Prescribing and Medicines Management has developed
a framework needed to accredit activities on behalf of its membership. Those
involved drew on the views of the membership, and other accreditation bodies
such as the Royal College of Nursing and the College of Pharmacy Practice
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| We would like to hear from you
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of new services either run by pharmacists or closely involving them. If
you have a story to tell, or have heard about a scheme that you would
like to hear more about, send details to:
Medicines Management Suggestions
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