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Medicines optimisation teams ‘lack capacity’ to drive transformation, says NHS Confed

Hospital Pharmacy Europe

For example, it suggested that when secondary care has access to the electronic prescribing system, the dispensing of drugs currently dispensed by NHS trusts – including high-tech medicines such as oral chemotherapy or immunotherapy drugs and monoclonal antibody therapies – could be moved to community pharmacy.

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Polypharmacy and ageing

Hospital Pharmacy Europe

In order to reduce the number of drug-related problems, much effort has been directed at identification of potentially inappropriate medicines (PIMs) and measures to reduce prescribing of high-risk drugs, said Professor Tobias Dreischulte (Institute of Family Practice and General Medicine, LMU Hospital, Munich, Germany).