Summary
Medicines play a crucial role in maintaining health, preventing illness, managing chronic conditions and curing disease. However, there is a growing body of evidence that shows us that there is an urgent need to get the fundamentals of medicines use right. Medicines use today is too often sub-optimal and we need a step change in the way that all healthcare professionals support patients to get the best possible outcomes from their medicines.
Medicines optimisation represents that step change. It is a patient-focused approach to getting the best from investment in and use of medicines that requires a holistic approach, an enhanced level of patient centred professionalism, and partnership between clinical professionals and a patient. Medicines optimisation is about ensuring that the right patients get the right choice of medicine, at the right time.
Content
This good practice guidance from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society provides four guiding principles for medicines optimisation that will help all healthcare professionals to support patients to get the best outcomes from their medicines use.
- Principle 1. Aim to understand the patient’s experience.
- Principle 2. Evidence based choice of medicines.
- Principle 3. Ensure medicines use is as safe as possible.
- Principle 4. Make medicines optimisation part of routine practice.
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