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Drugs brought back to pharmacies

Posted By harbour978

"Drugs brought back to pharmacies"

About: Rotherham PCT

(as other),

The waste/duplication/inefficiency I want to tell you about is:

Waste re drugs brought back to the pharmacy. I have worked in a pharmacy and experienced this.

People being aware that they can put a cross in the box on a prescription if they do not require the drug that month

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Response from Helen Wyatt, Manager, Patient and Public Involvement , Quality Assurance Team, Rotherham Clinical Commissioning Group 12 years ago
We are preparing to make a change
Helen Wyatt
Manager, Patient and Public Involvement , Quality Assurance Team,
Rotherham Clinical Commissioning Group

I support the organisation in making sure that the voice of patients and the public is heard and used in planning services. This involves running events, managing surveys, and building networks with the local community.

Submitted on 05/07/2011 at 09:58
Published on Care Opinion at 15:35

This comment was posted from our Stakeholder event in June. We are asking for help in identifying waste and inefficiencies within health services, as we want to make provide the best value we can for public money.

A full report of the event has been sent to attendees and NHS Rotherham Board. Details of specific actions and issues have also been passed to commissioning staff for action.

Specific Issues Raised Above

There were a lot of comments made around waste relating to prescription medication. All these have been passed to our medications lead. From what you say, it may be that we need to remind people around ordering repeat prescriptions effectively, and discourage stockpiling of medication. This could even be from you comment, which is a really clear and dsimple message - if you don't need it, tick the box!

Many thanks for your comments.

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Response from Helen Wyatt, Manager, Patient and Public Involvement , Quality Assurance Team, Rotherham Clinical Commissioning Group 12 years ago
Helen Wyatt
Manager, Patient and Public Involvement , Quality Assurance Team,
Rotherham Clinical Commissioning Group

I support the organisation in making sure that the voice of patients and the public is heard and used in planning services. This involves running events, managing surveys, and building networks with the local community.

Submitted on 05/07/2011 at 10:41
Published on Care Opinion at 15:35

Please note

On further advice from our pharmacy advisor, is that a cross or tick usually indicates that the medication is required, not the other way round.

It does seem that there is some misunderstanding around this.

We do need to make sure that ALL healthcare professionals, carers and patients understand how to order a repeat medication, and will look into how we get this message out.

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