A Medicines Optimisation Service

"The service was developed as a result of a pilot in one practice who used innovation funding to employ a pharmacist to improve their management of medicines. The idea came from the GPs who felt they were always rushed when looking at discharge medicines and this task would be more efficiently and effectively undertaken by a pharmacist. "

A Medicines Optimisation Service
Wyre Forest Clinical Commissioning Group
NICE Shared Learning example
May 2015

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Pharmacist-led repeat prescription management

"Walsall Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) implemented a pharmacist-led repeat prescription management service (RPMS). The service was aimed at reducing medicines wastage, minimising possible harm from medicines and improving the quality of repeat prescribing."

Pharmacist-led repeat prescription management: ensuring appropriate prescribing and reducing wastage
Walsall Clinical Commissioning Group
QIPP Case Study
November 2014

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Ensuring appropriate use of monitored dosage systems

"This initiative aims to reduce the inappropriate use of monitored dosage systems by ensuring they are only issued on a case-by-case basis to address specific practical problems of medicines adherence."

Ensuring appropriate use of monitored dosage systems: reducing unnecessary pharmacy workload: QIPP Case Study
Taunton & Somerset NHS Foundation Trust
NICE Quality and productivity collection
January 2015

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Developing pharmacy’s contribution to public health

"The challenge is to ensure that commissioners, both national and local, understand fully the contribution pharmacy can, and now is, making to health and wellbeing. Investment will be required, through a combination of pump priming, cascade funding, commissioning budgets, and/or local procurement. But the potential health dividends and financial savings far outweigh the investment costs." 

Developing pharmacy’s contribution to public health: a progress report from the Pharmacy and Public Health Forum
Public Health England
June 2014 

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Medicines in Commissioning Toolkit

"This toolkit will help ensure that high quality, cost effective, accessible medicines management services are commissioned and provided within new and redesigned patient services."

Medicines in Commissioning Toolkit
NHS East & South East England Specialist Pharmacy Services
April 2013

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