Integrated care clinical Pharmacist GSTT@home service

"The ICCPs have made a significant impact in the overall quality of care that the GSTT @home service patients have received, and have also had a positive effect on the overall medicines optimisation of the service in general."

Integrated care clinical Pharmacist GSTT@home service
Guys & St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust (Community Health Services) NHS Specialist Pharmacy services

NICE Shared Learning examples
September 2015

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A pharmacist-led ulcerative colitis review service

"This case study describes a pharmacist-led ulcerative colitis review service which was commissioned by Bushloe End surgery in Leicester."

A pharmacist-led ulcerative colitis review service: Improving medicines adherence in general practice: Quality and productivity collection
Bushloe End surgery
NICE
October 2014

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Collaborative pharmaceutical care in an Irish hospital

"PACT improved the quality and safety of prescribing for medical patients receiving acute hospital care: it reduced the prevalence of all medication error and potentially severe error; it improved the quality of prescribing in patients aged 65 years or older" 

Collaborative pharmaceutical care in an Irish hospital: uncontrolled before-after study
TC Grimes, E Deasy, A Allen, J O'Byrne, T Delaney, J Barragry, N Breslin, E Moloney, C Wall
BMJ Quality and Safety, 2014; 23: 574-583

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Review of specialist pharmacy services in England

"This report summarises the findings and recommendations of the Review of Specialist Pharmacy Services (SP Srvcs) in England."

The Review of Specialist Pharmacy Services in England

K Ridge

NHS England

May 2014

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New medicines, better medicines, better use of medicines

"The Guide ... highlights the major challenges and opportunities faced when creating new medicines, improving existing medicines or ensuring the better, safer use of medicines, and makes recommendations and calls for action."

New medicines, better medicines, better use of medicines: a guide to the science underpinning pharmaceutical practice 
Royal Pharmaceutical Society
May 2014

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Now or never: shaping pharmacy for the future

"The final sections of the report focus on what needs to be done if pharmacists are to increasingly assume the role of supporting patients with effective medicines use and by serving as care-givers in the health system, working in close partnership with other health and social care professionals as well as with patients."

Now or never: shaping pharmacy for the future
J Smith, C Picton, M Dayan
Royal Pharmaceutical Society
October 2013

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