Medication reviews and other services
Medication can have a very positive impact on the quality of life of residents in aged care facilities. However, they can also have potentially serious side effects, especially when not taken as prescribed, or when numerous medications are taken together, potentially interacting with one another.
Metropolitan Pharmacy Services offers a service called a Residential Medication Management Review (RMMR) to help ensure residents of aged care facilities receive optimum benefit from the medications they are prescribed.
RMMRs are funded by the Commonwealth Government. They have a proven health benefit for aged care residents and also help to minimise government expenditure by reducing hospitalisations due to medical misadventure.
Improving the management and control of a patient’s condition and any comorbidities should improve the patient’s health outcomes and quality of life.
RMMRs should be requested by a general practitioner and conducted by pharmacists who are accredited to perform, them in association with the resident's allied healthcare team.
Metropolitan Pharmacy Services has significant expertise in the delivery of RMMRs and other quality use of medicines (QUM) services. Founder and owner, Gerard Stevens, was the first Australian pharmacist accredited to perform RMMRs. MPS works closely with its sister organisation, MediTrax, one of Australia’s leading QUM service providers.
Please contact us any time to discuss RMMRs or any other QUM service that might be beneficial: 02 8514 5300
Other quality use of medicines services include:
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Attendance at medication advisory committee meetings
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Ongoing delivery of continuing professional education on medication management to care staff
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Ability to generate QUM reports on medication use trends such as for psychotropic and antibiotic usage