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The History of Concordance and Medicines Partnership


1995 - 1997 A Working Group at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, in partnership with Merck Sharp & Dohme, undertook an enquiry into what was known about the difficulties patients have in taking medicines as they are prescribed.  
1997 Publication of an influential report "From Compliance to Concordance" and a new term, 'concordance' introduced. A copy of the report is available to download below.
 
1998 - March 2001 Concordance Co-ordinating Group, based at the RPSGB, conducts further research on concordance>
 
September 2000 The NHS Pharmacy Programme Pharmacy in the Future proposed a national strategy on patient partnership in medicines taking
 
April 2001 Joint Task Force announced by Lord Hunt
December 2001 Medicines Partnership director appointed
January 2002

March 2004

July 2005
First meeting of the Medicines Partnership Task Force

Funding confirmed until Summer 2005
 
Funding confirmed until mid 2007

     
From Compliance to Concordance: Achieving Shared Goals in Medicine Taking
Report of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society working group In portable document format (178KB)
   
     
Medicines-related Statistics
A PowerPoint presentation with background information and statistics relating to medicines and medicines taking. Last updated June 2005. (123KB)