What is it?
- A specially trained pharmacist attends your home and goes through your medicines to improve your medication outcomes.
Why?
- Avoids hospitalisation’s
- Education available
- Improves patient compliance, knowledge, understanding and use of medicines
- Improves self-medication management
- Prevents future medication misadventures
Is there a cost?
- No this is a completely free service
A Home Medicine Review may benefit you if:
- You take 5 or more medicines
- Recently been in hospital
- Had a change to your medications
- Decline in medical condition or abilities
- Take medicines which need monitoring
- Take medicines that can interact with other medicines
- Feel unwell when you take your medicines
- Difficulty using medication-related devices including inhalers or injections
- Inability to continue managing own medicines due to changes in dexterity, confusion or impaired vision.