title: Complex medicines management.
abstract: Patients with long-term conditions (LTCs) often take many prescribed drugs. A specialist nurse and pharmacist at a Milton Keynes practice identified the need for a more coordinated medication service for patients with LTCs who take multiple medicines. Adopting a holistic approach, they set up a joint medication management project. This article describes how the one-year project improved quality and safety, reduced out-of-hours presentations and hospital admissions, and cut costs.
authors.affiliation: NHS Milton Keynes.
authors.forename: Ruth
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Thomas
authors.forename: Carol
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kilbey
mesh_terms: D017046:Cost Savings; D006801:Humans; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000191:economics*; D010595:Pharmacists; D010865:Pilot Projects; D019338:Polypharmacy; D012646:Self Administration / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D013041:Specialties, Nursing; D006113:United Kingdom