Improving pharmaceutical care in Scottish care homes
I’m so pleased to see publication this week of the RPS Scotland report “Putting residents at the centre of pharmacy care home services1” which calls for positive action across [...]
Nutrition and hydration week
It’s nutrition and hydration week and while medicines might not be the first thing you think of in regard to hydration, multiple medicines and diuretics increase the risk of dehydration. [...]
Using improvement methodology to implement systems change
While visiting a care service last week for a review, it made my day to see them using improvement methodology to implement systems changes without really thinking about it. Trying out a small [...]
Polypharmacy – new guidance from RPS
It’s great to see new polypharmacy guidance from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society about getting medicines right for every patient. Polypharmacy review is sometimes described as [...]
Free Webinar – Learning from medication errors
Whichever health or social care setting you work in, medication errors will happen. How you deal with them and learn from them will influence if they happen once or repeatedly. We are running a [...]