mur skills for the future

[Geremin]

If any of you need a CRB of any level...
We will happily apply on your behalf. As an AGY we do them at various levels for myriad reasons. If you need a basic or enhanced we'll be happy to apply for you. We can directly process basic and enhanced but remember there can be hold-ups on enhanced. What level are you required to undertake?

So any of you interested in our 3rd party MUR project? The "in-house" will be our main aim initially. However, I'd be interested to know how long it takes the PCT to respond to a request for "externals". Please correct me if I'm wrong but you apply for the "ok" per address? I do expect to be handling "residential home" visits too and believe that you only get the higher rate for the 1st client - is that right or am I miss interpreting the rules? I can see how it would be really lucrative for the pharmacy and Pharmacist to do Dom/Pvt addresses though the logistics could be hairy from my perspective...

[doryan]

Just have a look and gv me some feedback whether it makes sense or not?

White paper aspiration (2008):LTC=3/4 th of the medicines are used by the people who are in Long term condition.Eg: asthma, stroke, heart problem. AGING POPULATION=aging popultion increasing within 2029 it will be 50% over 85 yrs.
MEDICINE RELATED HARM=Errors can occur at any stage from prescribing and dispensing . Harm can also occur in the absence of error for an instace ADR.

New Pharmacy Contract 2005: MUR service introduced as a part of advance service of the new pharmacy contract in England.MURs are structured, concordance cententered reviews with patients recieving medicines for long term conditions to establish a picture of thier use of medicines, both prescribed and non prescribed medicines.

Defination Of MUR:
Medicine use review is the way to make better understanding of medicines.
Making patients more compliant
Reducing medinicne wastage.

Barriers Of MUR:
Comapany emphasise on Quantity rather than quality
Gp disengagement
Lacking Confidence
Time.

To meet the challenge set by White paper MUR can help a lot.To provide the Services Pharmacist need to have accreditation . Alredy there are few places for accreditation and assesment . But to meet the challenge more pharmacist are requried to undertake MUR and more education is required to provide the service effeiciently.

[doryan]

Also hospital pharmacist showed thier excellence as Medincine Expert for last 20 years . With the current drive to move health care services from hospital to community more Pharmcist need to be trained and competent .

These are the reason why they need education?