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NICE pharmacist guidance issued by RPSGB
11 Feb 2009
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) has created implementation guidance to make it possible for pharmacists to help patients grasp how and why to take their medications, it has announced.
National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) Clinical Guideline 76: Medicines Adherence covers a number of reasons why patients do not adhere to medicinal guidance, as well as providing ways in which professionals can deal with them to ensure they are taken in an appropriate manner.
The RPSGB''s guidance explains how pharmacists can best talk to their patients as well as showing them how they can have a degree of choice in the drugs they take.
Heidi Wright, head of practice at the society, comments: "The relationship between pharmacist and patient is not a one-way street the more involvement patients have in the medicines they take, the greater the likelihood they will continue to take medicines appropriately."
In recent days, the RPSGB announced Martin Stephens and Jonathan Mason, England''s clinical directors for pharmacy, attended its council dinner earlier this month.