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Tag Archives: Multiple Medications (Polypharmacy)
Potential Harms From Polypharmacy in the Elderly (BBC News / Age UK / EJCP / Bazian / Lancet Psychiatry)
Summary An Age UK report investigates the potential harms of over-prescribing medicines for older people. Older persons often remain on too many prescribed medicines, putting them at risk of side-effects, potentially resulting in falls and other forms of serious harm. … Continue reading →
Posted in Age UK, Antipsychotics, BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, Depression, Falls, Falls Prevention, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Hypertension, In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, Personalisation, Pharmacological Treatments, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Achieving Better Value, Addictions Department - Division of Academic Psychiatry: King's College London, Addictive Prescription Medicines, Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs), Adverse Drug Reactions in the Elderly, Ageing Population, Alcohol Drugs Tobacco and Justice Division: Public Health England, AntiCholinergic Burden, Anticholinergic Drugs, Anticholinergics, Antidepressants, Anxiolytics and Hypnotics (Including Benzodiazepines), ARMOUR Tool, Australian Prescribing Indicators, Austrian Criteria, Barenholtz Levy, Bazian, BBC Health News, Beers Criteria, Behind the Headlines, Benzodiazepines, Better Value, Better Value Healthcare, Better Value in the NHS, Brown Model, Cantrill Indicators, Care Home Pharmacists, Care Home Pharmacists to Cut Overmedication, Care Homes, Care of Frail Older People With Complex Needs, Care of Older People Living at Home, Care of Older People Living in Care Homes, Care Planning: Relating New Prescribing Decisions to Existing Medicines, Care Quality Improvement Department: Royal College of Physicians, Case Management and Enhanced Rapid Response, Challenging Behaviour in Dementia, Choosing Wisely, Choosing Wisely in the NHS, Choosing Wisely in the UK, Clinical Pharmacists, CMS List, Communication Between Community Pharmacists and GPs, Community Pharmacies, Community Pharmacists, Community Pharmacy, Community-Based Services, Community-Based Support, Comorbidity, Comorbidity and Dementia, Comorbidity and Polypharmacy in People With Dementia, Dementia Friendly Community Pharmacists, Department of Family Medicine: University of California Los Angeles, Department of Primary Care and Public Health: Imperial College London, Dependence and Withdrawal Associated With Prescribed Medicines (PHE Review), Deprescribing, Discontinuation of Multiple Medications in Older Adults, Doubling-Up, Drug Burden Index, Drug Cost Savings, Economic Sustainability, Elderly Malnutrition, European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, FORTA Criteria, Four or More Medicines (FOMM) Support Service, Frail Older People, Frailty, Gabapentinoids, Geriatric Medication Algorithm, German PRISCUS List of Potentially Inappropriate Medications, Good Practice in Care Homes, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, Hamdy Criteria, Hanoi Medical University, Harms of Too Much Medicine, Health Improvement Directorate: Public Health England, High Quality Medicines Reviews, Holmes Criteria, Hospital Pharmacists, Hospital‑Based Multidisciplinary Teams: Pharmacists, Hull-York Medical School: University of Hull, Imperial College London, Improving Care for Frail Older People, Improving Patient Safety, Improving Pharmaceutical Care in Care Homes, Improving Prescribing in the Elderly Tool, Improving Prescribing Practice, Improving Standards in Care Homes, Inappropriate Drug Use, Inappropriate Medication, Inappropriate Prescribing, Institute of Psychiatry Psychology and Neuroscience: King’s College London, Integrated Care Clinical Pharmacist (ICP) for Frail Older People, Integrated Care Pharmacists (ICPs), Kaiser Permanente Model, Kings College London, KPC Criteria, Lambeth Addictions: South London and Maudsley NHS Mental Health Foundation Trust, Lancet Psychiatry, Laroche Criteria, Later Life, Lechevallier Criteria, Less is More, Liaison and In-Reach Services for Frail Older People, Lindblad’s List, Lipton’s Tool, Living at Home, Living Well in Care Homes, Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Lowering Costs, Maio Criteria, Malnutrition, Malnutrition in Later Life, Malone’s List, Management of Challenging Behaviour, Managing Comorbidity and Complexity, Managing Medicines in Care Homes, Matsumura Alert System, McLeod Criteria, MDTs: Multidisciplinary Teams, Medical Overuse, Medication Adherence, Medication Appropriateness Index, Medication Creep, Medication Nonadherence, Medication Reviews, Medication Reviews in Care Homes, Medication Without Harm (WHO), Medication-Related Harm, Medications Management Outcome Monitor, Medicine Combinations, Medicines Management, Multi-Morbidities, Multimorbidities and Long-Term Conditions, Multiple Comorbidities, Multiple Long-Term Conditions, Multiple Medications (Polypharmacy), National Guideline Centre: Royal College of Physicians, NCOA Criteria, New Mexico Criteria, NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA), NHS Community Pharmacies, Non-Adherence: Medication-Related Harm, Norwegian General Practice (NORGEP) Criteria, Oborne’s Prescribing Indicators, Older Adults Higher Levels of Dependency Dementia and Comorbidity, Older People, Older People Supported and Involved in Decisions About Medicines, Older People With Complex Needs, Older People's Care, Opioid Painkillers, Opioids, Optimising Prescribing and Deprescribing in Older Adults, Over-Medication, Over-Prescribing, Over-Treatment, Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment, Overmedicalization, Overmedicaton in Care Homes, Overprescribing, Overprescription, Overuse of Medication, Owen’s Steps, Patient Harms, Patient Preference and Adherence, Patient 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Multi-Morbidity Re-Visited (BBC News / Academy of Medical Sciences / Health Foundation / JGCR)
Summary The Academy of Medical Sciences has produced a report on the unprecedented burden of “multi-morbidity”, i.e. the clustering of two or more physical and mental health conditions in the same patient. This is a summary of emerging evidence on … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, Depression, Diagnosis, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Health Foundation, In the News, Integrated Care, International, Management of Condition, Mental Health, National, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Pharmacological Treatments, Quick Insights, Statistics, Systematic Reviews, UK, Universal Interest
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NHS England’s Pharmacy Integration Fund (NHS England / BBC News)
Summary Care home residents often have multiple long-term conditions and are often prescribed several different medicines (polypharmacy). NHS England plans to fund recruitment of 180 pharmacists and 60 pharmacy technicians who will work with care homes to try to reduce … Continue reading →
Posted in BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, Falls Prevention, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, NHS England, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Pharmacological Treatments, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing for Older Persons: Revisited (APPG on Dementia / Newsmax / European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology)
Summary The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Dementia (APPG), back in 2008, asserted that perhaps half of dementia patients may be receiving inappropriate medications. While the extent to which this position may have changed in recent years is debatable, the allegation … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Dementia, Antipsychotics, Commissioning, Community Care, Falls Prevention, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, International, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, Person-Centred Care, Pharmacological Treatments, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Primary Care Home: a New Model of Primary Care (NAPC / Nuffield Trust / SCIE / PA Consulting Group)
Summary The National Association of Primary Care (NAPC) has recently proposed an alternative model pf primary care, which is intended to realign primary care resources around the health and social needs of local communities. It involves “primary, community, mental, social … Continue reading →
Posted in Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Nuffield Trust, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, SCIE, Standards, UK, Universal Interest, Wolverhampton
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Collaborative Care or Combined Teams, Collaborative Care Planning, Collaborative Care Teams, Collaborative Working, Community Health Initiatives, Community Involvement, Complex Patients at Risk of Hospital Admission, Derwentside Healthcare LTD: Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, Diabetes Care, Diabetes Epidemic, Diabetes Prevention, Discharge and Out of Hospital Care, Dorking Primary Care Home: Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, Durham Dales Easington and Sedgefield CCG: Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, East Cornwall Primary Care Home: Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, East Norfolk Medical Practice: Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, Economic Sustainability, Enablers for the PCH Model, Evaluation of PCH Model, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Five Year Forward View - Next Steps: Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships, Frail Patients on Discharge From Hospital, Frailty, Frailty Clinics, Hammersmith and Fulham GP Federation (Network3): Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, Hampstead Primary Care Neighbourhood: Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, Hard to Reach Groups, Hard-to-Engage Diabetics, Haywards Heath PCH: Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, Health and Social Care Integration, Health and Social Care Services, Healthy East Grinstead Partnership: Primary Care Home (PCH) Test Site, Herne Bay Health Care: Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, Horsham PCH: Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, IHI Triple Aim, Improving Local Public Health, Improving Population Health, Inappropriate Hospital Admissions, Integrated care Exeter: Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, Integrated Out-of-Hospital Care, Integrated Teams, Integrated Teams of Practice and Community Staff, Integrating Health and Social Care, Inter-Team Working, Interdisciplinary Teams, Joint Working, Joint Working Between NHS and Social Care Systems, Larwood and Bawtry Primary Care Home: Primary Care Home (PCH) Test Site, Leadership Across Local Areas, Lewes Health Hub: Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, Lichfield / Burntwood Network: Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, Local Health and Social Care Economies, Local Leadership, Local Leadership for Healthy Communities, Local Public Health, Local Solutions: Place-Based Approaches, Local Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), Long-Term Care (LTC), Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Lostwithiel Fowey St Blazey Primary Care Network : Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, Luton Primary Care Cluster: Primary Care Home (PCH) Test Site, Margate PCH: Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, Middlewood Ltd: Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, Moving Healthcare Closer to Home, Multi-Disciplinary Teams, Multiple Medications (Polypharmacy), 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MATCH-D: Medication Appropriateness Tool for Comorbid Health Conditions in Dementia (Internal Medicine Journal / BMJ Open)
Summary The Medication Appropriateness Tool for Comorbid Health conditions in Dementia (MATCH-D) criteria were developed to provide consensus guidance on the use of medications for people with dementia. Full Text Link Reference Page, AT. Potter, K. Clifford, RM. [et al] … Continue reading →
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Dementia Concerned About Disjointed and Substandard Care For Common Dementia Comorbidities (ILC-UK / Alzheimer’s Society / Pharma Times Online / APPG on Dementia)
Summary Inadequate care and systemic failures in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of comorbidities experienced by people with dementia is believed to result in (i) unnecessary costs for the NHS, (ii) widespread and preventable reduced quality of life among patients … Continue reading →
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