Guidance on post-discharge NMS and MUR

New guidance has been published showing how the New Medicine Service (NMS) and post discharge Medicines Use Reviews (MURs) can be used for patients who transfer from hospital to the community.

As we all know, medicine waste is a serious and growing problem within the NHS.

The South Central SHA will be launching a medicine waste initiative across its eight PCTs starting on Monday 20th February 2012.  £20 million is the amount of estimated medicines waste generated in SCSHA of which approximately half is deemed avoidable

The campaign is designed to help start a conversation with patient about medicines waste and focuses on 3 key messages:

In   March 2011 service developments within the pharmacy contract were announced which include changes to the clinical governance requirements

There are three key changes to the existing clinical governance requirements and four new requirements

Changes to existing requirements:

Pharmacists across the country are being asked to promote uptake of the seasonal influenza vaccine at the point of dispensing in those patients considered at risk. https://www.cas.dh.gov.uk/

According to the Department of Health,  good progress has been made vaccinating  health care workers compared to last year but  current data show that vaccine uptake levels in the clinical risk groups are only similar to or slightly higher than at the same time last year.