Lindsay & Gilmour have a dedicated health care team offering care home residents and staff a full range of services to maximise the benefits patients achieve from medicines.
This includes:
- Regular deliveries
- All electronic MARs
- Medicines advice
- All training on eMAR
- Regular pharmacist visits
- Always someone available to speak to during opening hours
During our regular on-site visits, our highly trained pharmacists will work with the care home team to improve ownership of medicines management, provide support with training and maximise the benefits to patients. The benefits of pharmacist support include:
- Medicines information and advice
- Medication reviews
- Risk Reduction
- Simplification of the medication regime where possible
- A reduction in the non-adherence of medicines
- Waste reduction
In addition, our dedicated team will work with Care Home staff to introduce and support the use of online prescription management tool, eMAR, which has the following benefits for medicines management:
- Safer
- Quicker and more efficient
- Ordering medicines becomes easier
- Less waste
- Better medicines management
- Clear records and audits
- No more paperwork
- Provide access to ongoing online training on various topics which staff can access for personal development
- The eMAR service can assist with meeting requirements from the Care Inspectorate
