Ian Hunter, Pharmacy Development Manager at Pfizer confirmed on Friday that he will be delivering a presentation at the 5th annual Patient Compliance & Communication conference. It will contain new data gathered from a study of 400 GP's and their interactions between pharmacists, the GPs familiarity with MURs and their impact on patient care. In April 2005 the new contractual framework for community pharmacy ("the new contract") was introduced in the UK. In addition to traditional dispensing duties pharmacists were invited to participate in a new service, the medicines used review (MUR).
The MUR involves pharmacists undertaking structured concordance centered reviews with patients on multiple medicines, particularly those receiving medicines for long term conditions. The pharmacist consults with the patient to establish the patients actual use of medicines compared to the posology of their prescription. The review aims to help patients understand their therapy, identify any problems they are experiencing along with possible solutions. For this review to be most effective it is essential that pharmacists feedback information on the outcomes from the MUR to the patientâs GP so that both healthcare professionals have the same information available to them and act similarly if compliance is to be optimized.
In this study of 400 GPs we examined the interactions between GPs and pharmacists, GPs familiarity with MURs and their impact on patient care. The results will be explored at the Patient Compliance & Communication conference, June 11-12th 2008.
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