This programme aims to help patients get the maximum benefit from their medicines and reduce waste.Our projects have the Principles of Medicines Optimisation at their heart: Aim to understand the patients experienceEvidence based choice of medicinesMaking medicines optimisation part of routine practice Ensuring medicines use...
This programme aims to help patients get the maximum benefit from their medicines and reduce waste.
Our projects have the Principles of Medicines Optimisation at their heart:
- Aim to understand the patients experience
- Evidence based choice of medicines
- Making medicines optimisation part of routine practice
- Ensuring medicines use is as safe as possible.
We are focusing on a number of key areas to improve support for patients to get the best from their medicines;
- pathways between hospital and local pharmacists
- management of polypharmacy
- medicines safety.
Wessex AHSN is the lead AHSN for medicines optimisation and works collaboratively with the other 14 AHSNs to develop, share and spread good practice in medicines optimisation.
Links:
Information about Medicines Optimisation and children's hospitals
NHS England and the Medicines Optimisation dashboard
Programme partners:
AHSN members
Swindon and Wiltshire, Dorset, and Hampshire and Isle of Wight Local Pharmaceutical committees
ABPI (Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry)
The Thames Valley and Wessex Chief Pharmacists Network
Pinnacle Healthcare
The Network of Academic Health Science Networks Medicines Optimisation Programmes
NHS England Safety Team
Wessex Strategic Clinical Network
