Hospital-to-pharmacy discharge service could have saved more than 17,000 bed days in three months

摘要

The discharge medicines service (DMS) could have saved more than 17,000 bed days within a three-month time period, NHS England has said. As part of the DMS, patients are referred to community pharmacy after being discharged from hospital, where pharmacy staff compare the medicines prescribed at discharge with those taken before admission to ensure that medicines awaiting collection are still appropriate.