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medication usage reviews

  • 22-05-2012 5:44pm
    #1
    nino1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 829 ✭✭✭


    are there any pharmacies in ireland that do medication usage reviews like you see in the UK?


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  • #2
    locum-motion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,143 ✭✭✭locum-motion


    Not really.

    A MUR is quite a formalised process that the NHS pays pharmacists in the UK to carry out. It's a way of moving the role - and model of remuneration - of the pharmacist away from purely supplying drugs to a role that utilises the pharmacist's expertise in drugs to encourage more rational prescribing. More rational prescribing in turn can provide cost savings to the health service and therefore money is available to pay pharmacists to provide the service.

    The Irish Pharmacy Union has organised a small pilot scheme to which a certain number of pharmacies have signed up. The idea behind the pilot scheme is to provide data to prove to the HSE that such a process can save them enough money that it will be worth rolling it out to all pharmacies (and paying for it!)

    So, unless you happen to go into one of the pharmacies involved in the pilot and ask for a MUR, you won't find one.


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