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MUR therapy check

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peter7

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There must be someone amongst us who can explain or comment upon the MUR therapy check 2012 modified 2013. I may have misunderstood my chemist but I thought participation was voluntary, or is the a way of moving services from my GP and hospital to the high street. My particular concern is that monitoring of my health in general, not just diabetes, has been carried out very well by my medical centre and GP's, a mistake can cost me my life or a stroke, due to my medical history. What benefit does the MUR therapy regime bring, and how does it affect my treatment?. This surely is something that we should all be concerned with.
 
My concern is with the 2013 additions and the fact that the chemist was querying my warfarin which is handled perfectly well by my gp and hospital. The chemist does not know my history.
 
The MUR (Medicine use review) is only designed to try and check that patients are happy physically taking/using their medication, can remember to take it, and to try and give advice to minimise side effects. It is not a clinical review, and does not seek to alter your medication regime, unless the patient has specific problems or complaints, but even in that case all the pharmacist can do is make a recommendation to the GP based on the info from the consultation. Pharamcists are not trying to alter your med regime, but we are the experts in the medicines themselves, so are ideally placed to answer questions about them. The recent focus in MURs on warfarin is because it is known that despite a small proportion of the population taking it, problems with it account for a large proportion of hospital admissions. MURs are about adding another layer of checks and safety to try and reduce the adverse events possible with all medication. they are entirely voluntary, but you may be surprised at the value they can add

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Pharmacists check that you know how to use your medication and if your prescription changes, they also check for adverse interactions. Nowadays with computers, Doctors can and do check this too, but in the "olden days" pharmacists did pick up on dangerous drug combinations and prevent tragedy.
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You'd be amazed how many serious prescribing errors (including drug-drug interactions, drug-disease interactions, overdoses, missing items, extra items incompletely/illegally written prescriptions etc etc etc) pharmacists pick up on and get corrected every single day without the public knowing anything about it!

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