Managing Patients' Medicines

March 2010

General Practitioners

Country of origin: UK

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The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has reported that patients could be at risk unless the management of medicines between services such as GP practices and hospitals is improved. The report looks at how well patients? medication is managed after patients leave hospital.

Commenting on the report, RCGP Chair, Professor Steve Field said: ?Quality, safe and seamless care should be the entitlement of all our patients, regardless of where they live, which part of the healthcare system they are accessing or who is providing their care. We have long suspected that there are some areas where this is not happening and the CQC report confirms this. Patients can feel especially vulnerable when they are discharged from hospital and they need to be safe in the knowledge that their GP is working with the most comprehensive and accurate information available. The RCGP has been calling for a long time for a more joined-up approach between primary and secondary care?.

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