{"id":22856,"date":"2019-02-14T09:00:50","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T08:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lancashirecarelibraryblog.com\/?p=22856"},"modified":"2019-02-14T09:00:50","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T08:00:50","slug":"polypharmacy-getting-our-medicines-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/2019\/02\/14\/polypharmacy-getting-our-medicines-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Polypharmacy: getting our medicines right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Royal Pharmaceutical Society, February 2019<\/strong><br \/>\nThis guidance is for pharmacists and all healthcare organisations involved with medicine and\u00a0provides a summary of the scale and complexity of the issue of polypharmacy.\u00a0The guidance\u00a0outlines how healthcare professionals, patients and carers can find solutions when polypharmacy causes problems for patients and points to useful resources that can help.\u00a0 The guidance recommends that all healthcare organisations have systems in place to ensure people taking 10 or more medicines can be identified and highlighted as requiring a comprehensive medication review with a pharmacist.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rpharms.com\/recognition\/setting-professional-standards\/polypharmacy-getting-our-medicines-right\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here<\/a> to view the guidance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Pharmaceutical Society, February 2019 This guidance is for pharmacists and all healthcare organisations involved with medicine and\u00a0provides a summary of the scale and complexity of the issue of polypharmacy.\u00a0The guidance\u00a0outlines how healthcare professionals, patients and carers can find solutions when polypharmacy causes problems for patients and points to useful resources that can help.\u00a0 The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/2019\/02\/14\/polypharmacy-getting-our-medicines-right\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Polypharmacy: getting our medicines right&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[98,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guidance","category-pharmacy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}