Medicines management.

Complementary medicines and weight management.

Essential medicines management during emergencies in Pakistan.

This paper illustrates the experiences of essential medicine management in providing cure and care to victims of Pakistan's 2005 earthquake in a safe, rational and effective mode. The health interventions assured access to essential medicine, sustained supply, inventory control through a computerized logistic support system and rational use of medicines. World Health Organization Pakistan outli...

Safer medicines management in primary care.

Errors in the medicines management process represent an important source of iatrogenic harm in primary care. Most errors result from underlying systems-based problems that are amenable to intervention and potentially preventable. In this paper, we seek to identify the frequency of medication-related morbidity in primary care, understand the underlying systemic reasons that increase risk of medi...

Can medicines management services reduce hospital admissions?

Reducing avoidable hospital admissions is a priority for the NHS. Medicines account for about 4–6.5 per cent of emergency admissions, 3 and causes related to medicines fall into three broad categories: adverse drug reactions,prescribing errors and poor compliance. In theory it should be possible to reduce the underpinning causes for these three types of problems, but evidence from randomised co...

Improvement of medicines management in hospitals.

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust submitted a successful bid to be one of 10 trusts involved in the first wave of the hospital medicines management collaborative. This article discusses the concept of medicines management and highlights the advantages of having a nurse as the project facilitator.