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"Pharmacy
in the Future" provided us with a vision
of how the challenging reforms described in the
NHS plan would be applied to pharmacy and the
use of medicines. The MMS project team, based
at the National Prescribing Centre in Liverpool,
was established with the remit of improving the
capability for medicines management services in
primary care through a systematic and co-ordinated
programme of quality improvement.
The
overall goal and key aims of the collaborative:
". to help optimise prescribing,
plus the experiences and outcomes for each patient,
wherever medicines are involved."
We
will achieve this by:
- Identifying
and addressing unmet pharmaceutical need
- Helping
patients get the best from their medicines
and thereby delivering real improvements
in health
- Developing
innovative medicines management approaches
that have the patients' needs uppermost
whilst improving service efficiency and
reducing waste
- Providing
convenient access to a range of medicines
management services in different environments
through multidisciplinary working which
builds on the strengths of pharmacists
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We
will use a proven method for quality improvement,
the collaborative approach, and this is explained
in the 'Overview' pages in this section - use
the side menu bar to go to this page.
The collaborative has a number of specific objectives
that contribute to the key aims described previously.
Local pilot sites will need to define their own
specific local measurable targets within which
they will be able to demonstrate:
- Improvements
in health through improved medicines management,
using accepted markers
- A reduction
in the waste of medicines
- A
reduction in unmet pharmaceutical need
in at least one priority area
An improvement
in medicines-taking through the development
of patient partnerships
- A
reduction in inappropriate clerical and
professional time taken up with existing
medicines management processes (e.g. in
repeat prescribing)
- Improved
patient satisfaction with the medicines
management services provided
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