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       How to reduce medicines wastage and improve the quality of repea
       t prescriptions?
       By: admini5 Date: May 12, 2015, 4:12 am
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       How to reduce medicines wastage and improve the quality of
       repeat prescriptions by enabling pharmacist to manage repeat
       prescriptions?
       To reduce medicines wastage and improve the quality of repeat
       prescriptions by enabling GP practices to buy-in pharmacist time
       to manage repeat prescriptions.
       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. Cash was saved by ensuring the least expensive,
       clinically appropriate medicines were prescribed, for example by
       switching from branded to generic drugs. Practice-based
       pharmacists worked as an integral part of primary care general
       practice teams to manage repeat prescriptions.
       The previous system, common in many general practices, involved
       administrative staff generating the repeat prescription for
       authorisation by the GP(s) on duty. On average, each GP
       authorised approximately 200 repeat prescriptions per week.
       Under the new system pharmacists generate the repeat
       prescriptions, authorising those within their medical
       competence, with the remainder being authorised by GPs.
       The role of the pharmacist is to:
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       Pharmacists are responsible for determining their competencies
       according to their training and specialisms and must be insured
       appropriately.
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       meets the prescribing indicator objectives.
       The service allows pharmacists to elicit any relevant
       information from the patient and the GP system for the purposes
       of assessing the appropriateness of a request. This information
       includes medical notes and history, monitoring arrangements and
       details of other medicines currently prescribed. This helps
       with:
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       indicators
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       The RPMS is now established in 56 out of 62 practices.
       For further information on the topic please go to :
  HTML https://www.nice.org.uk/Media/.../14-0001-qp-pharmacist-led-rpms.pdf
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