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Pharmacists ‘not incentivised to understand medicines management needs’
Pharmacists ‘not incentivised to understand medicines management needs’
Pharmacists ‘not incentivised to understand medicines management needs’
Pharmacists ‘not incentivised to understand medicines management needs’. The current services and funding structures available to community pharmacies are not conducive to their playing an active role in helping patients manage their medicines. A government-funded digital health start-up has claimed.
In its submission to the parliamentary health select committee’s inquiry into the community pharmacy sector, Connect Care – which works with councils and NHS trusts to support elderly patients with their medication adherence – called for a more defined role for community pharmacists as primary care networks phase out funding for structured medication reviews. Which are delivered by pharmacist working in general practice.
“Pharmacies are not incentivised nor reimbursed fairly for the time taken to understand people’s meds management needs and dispense in ways that make medicine management easiest and fit for purpose,” it said.
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