Essential Services
Discharge Medicines Service DMS)
Information can be found on Community Pharmacy England’s website
The service seeks to ensure better communication of changes made to a patient’s medicines in hospital and its aims are to:
- Optimise the use of medicines, whilst facilitating shared decision making;
- Reduce harm from medicines at transfers of care;
- Improve patients’ understanding of their medicines and how to take them following discharge from hospital;
- Reduce hospital readmissions; and
- Support the development of effective team-working across hospital, community and primary care networks pharmacy teams and general practice teams and provide clarity about respective roles.
NHSE Discharge Medicines Toolkit.
Dispensing Appliances
Information can be found on Community Pharmacy England’s website
Dispensing Medicines
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Disposal of unwanted medicines
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Healthy Living Pharmacies
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Repeat Dispensing and eRD
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Signposting
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Support for self-care
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