The journey from medicines management to optimisation has resulted in significant improvements in the quality and safety of medicines yielding health gain and economy and a return on investment of £5–8 for each £1 invested. How? Read the review.
imm review article 2015 ejhp.pdf Medicines are the most common intervention in healthcare. The increasing population of older citizens, who often have several co-morbidities, necessitates the use of numerous medications. This in turn presents a range of challenges with regards to medicines optimisation. The event NICH EcosystemMeeting ‘Medicines Adherence’ aimed to explore what health professionals, pharmacists, patients and industry can do to combat this growing challenge.
On the Third Pharmacy Management National Forum the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing and Digitalis MM presented their collaborative projects on medicines management and optimisation. Prof. Michael Scott and Cathy Harrison (both NI) presented a satellite session on EIP. Rob Brenninkmeijer and Frans van Andel (both Digitalis) presented the poster ‘Pharmaceutical Clinical Effectiveness Programme: The Role of STEPSelect’ and the collaboration with Antrim Area Hospital (NI).
EIP on Active and Healthy Ageing.pdf BRENNINKMEIJER_Pharmaceutical_Clinical_Effectiveness_-_the_use_of_STEPSelect.pdfThe Ministry of Health in Warsaw was the location of the special seminar ‘Integrated Medicines Management’ on 31 October 2014. Subject was the development of IMM and STEPSelect in Northern Ireland and its relevance for Poland. Speakers: Frans van Andel, Rob Brenninkmeijer (Digitalis), Michael Scott (Northern Health and Social Care Trust and Artur Falek (Director of Drug Policy and Pharmacy Department). Want to know what they talked about? For slideshows and video’s: http://bit.ly/stepselectpoland
Digitalis has been successfully collaborating with the Northern Health and Social Trust (NHSCT), Northern Ireland since 2009. The NHCST is one of the five Health Care Authority in Northern Ireland providing health and social care for a population of 1.8 million persons.
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