Pharmacist Medicine Management Responsibility

A trial scheme has found that pharmacists could cut care home medication errors by 91% if they were given full responsibility for medicines management.
A four month trial by Midhurst Pharmacy introduced a pharmacist led pharmaceutical intervention programme at a 69 bed higher dependent care home. At the end of the trail internal medicine errors reduced from 69 at baseline to 6.
The trial follows an alert from the Department of Health, warning that older people in care homes were exposed to a higher rate of medication errors than those in the community.
Are you a pharmacist working in a care home? Do you feel that you should be given the full medicine management responsibility? Please let Flame Health know.