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Updated 19 April 2002

19 April 2002
Medicines management guide launched A new guide to medicines management has been launched this week. "Modernising medicines management: a guide to achieving benefits for patients, professionals and the NHS" has been produced by the National Prescribing Centre and the National Primary Care Research and Development Centre...[more]


29 January 2002
Comprehensive websites dealing exclusively with the topic of medicines management are few, but one of the best can be found at www.managingmedicines.com.

This page was set up by Douglas Simpson, former editor of the PJ, and has been maintained since his leaving in 2000. It has an extensive section of resources, links and articles on medicines management as well as regularly updated news about the various pilots schemes around the UK.

Medicines Management (Pharmaceutical care)
(14 November 2001)

Over the past few years pharmaceutical care has emerged as a major topic in pharmacy. The concept of pharmaceutical care was developed in the United States by Douglas Hepler and Linda Strand. It was defined as “the responsible provision of drug therapy for the purpose of achieving definite outcomes that improve a patient’s quality of life” (Am J Hosp Pharm 1990;47:533-43). This was subsequently refined by Strand and co-workers to “a practice in which the practitioner takes responsibility for a patient’s drug related needs and holds him or herself accountable for meeting these needs”. In order to achieve this, the practitioner assesses the reasonableness and effectiveness of the medicines a patient is taking, develops a care plan for the patient and follows up on a systematic basis. The Pharmaceutical Journal has followed and contributed to the growing debate concerning pharmaceutical care within the profession.

A bibliography of some of the most important articles published in The Pharmaceutical Journal on pharmaceutical care has been compiled by a former editor of The Pharmaceutical Journal, Douglas Simpson.

Bibliography

Second wave of MM pilots announced (PJ 16 February 2002) [more]

Pharmacist prescribing is the end-point of medicines management (PJ 9 February 2002) [more]

Medicines management group covering five NHS trusts set up in north Cumbria (PJ 9 February 2002) [more]

Medicines Management: a forum for pharmacists and other professionals (PJ 2 February 2002 (PDF*, 55K))

Medicines management and change management — the PSNC pilot trials (PJ 2 February 2002) [more]

Win over hearts and minds then launch medicines management in hospitals (PJ 5/12 January 2002) [more]

Pharmacy, medicines management and the modernisation agenda (PJ 22/29 December 2001) [more]

Improving medicines management in the over-75s in Grampian (PJ 17 November 2001 (PDF*, 60K))

Managing your medicines — a pharmacy service in Northern Ireland (PJ 20 October 2001 (PDF*, 60K))

Supporting the implementation of prescribing advice in Primary Care organisations (PJ, 20 October 2001 (PDF* 60K))

Managing medicines better — smarter purchasing and distribution (PJ, 18 August 2001) [more]

Welsh Executive annual lecture: What medicines management means and what’s happening in Wales (PJ, 11 August 2001) [more]

Changes to pharmacy role needed for medicines management to succeed (PJ, June 9, 2001, p792)

International conference on “Medicines management thru pharmaceutical care” in Birmingham, October 6-8 2001 [more]

Changes to pharmacy role needed for medicines management to succeed (PJ, June 9, 2001, p792)

Medicines management “not about rocket science” (PJ, May 26, 2001, (PDF*, 45K))

A comprehensive system for managing medicines in secondary care (PJ, April 28, 2001, (PDF*, 120K))

Welsh call for medicines management (PJ, March 24, 2001, p376)

Learning from nurse prescribing (PJ, March 24, 2001, p394)

Collaborative national medicines management services programme seeks to spread good practice (PJ, March 24, 2001, p378)

A pragmatic way forward (PJ, March 3, 2001, p281)

What is medicines management? (PJ, February 24, 2001, p248)

What is medicines management and what is pharmaceutical care? (PJ, February 3, 2001, p150)

£190,000 for medicines management in London (PJ, January 27, 2001, p100)

Madrid Pharmacists Association: Pharmaceutical care supporters meet in Spain (PJ, April 22, 2000, p627)

Enhancing the performance of graduates: the new pharmaceutical care centre at the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen (PJ, April 1, 2000, p513)

Pharmacist prescribing as soon as parliamentary time allows (PJ, March 18, 2000, p424)

Leader: Pharmacist prescribing - one step closer (PJ, March 18, 2000, p424)

PSNC asks for £1.8m for national medicines management pilot (PJ, February 5, 2000, p200)

Major trial of medicines management (PJ, January 29, 2000, p187)

Leader: Pharmacists prescribing (PJ, May 13, 1999, p345)

Pharmaceutical care network europe (PJ, May 1, 1999, p632)

International symposium on pharmaceutical care (PJ, May 1, 1999, p626)

Leader: Caring co-operation (PJ, May 1, 1999, p605)

Crown review paves the way for pharmacists as dependent prescribers (PJ, March 13, 1999, p346)

New head for Aberdeen (PJ, October 3, 1998, p545)

Pharmacy World Congress (PJ, September 12, 1998, p427)

Liverpool John Moores university seminar: Pharmaceutical care (PJ, June 13, 1998, p877)

Hoechst Marion Roussell lecture: Building a practice in pharmaceutical care (PJ, June 13, 1998, p874)

Joint International Symposium: Worldwide developments in pharmaceutical care (PJ, April 18, 1998, p563)

Pharmaceutical care: the Minnesota model (PJ, June 28, 1997, p899)