The Right Prescription: resource pack
September 3 2012
This resource pack will support pharmacists, who play a crucial role in medicines optimisation, to have critical conversations about the prescription of antipsychotics in dementia and reduce inappropriate prescribing.
Although there are clinical situations where a time-limited prescription of antipsychotic drugs may be appropriate, often antipsychotic drugs are over prescribed for people living with dementia. This resource pack will support pharmacists, who play a crucial role in medicines optimisation, to have critical conversations about the prescription of antipsychotics in dementia and reduce inappropriate prescribing.
Download The Right Prescription: resource pack
The resource pack contains a digest of information, guidance and tools to support pharmacists and other healthcare professionals. It includes:
- Essential information about dementia and how it affects people
- A list of the drugs that are covered as part of this call to action
- Steps to take to query prescriptions either reactively or proactively
- Information about alternative therapies for these people with dementia including evidence of the benefits of non-pharmacological approaches and how to find them locally
- Clarity about what to track and report to help us understand progress over time
- Information on how this fits into your continuing professional development
More information
- National call to action www.institute.nhs.uk/dementiac2a
- Join the call to action www.acalltoaction.co.uk/therightprescription
- The Royal Pharmaceutical Society website www.rpharms.com/dementia/dementia-pharmacy-and-call-to-action.asp
