Medicines optimisation is a term with which many readers will be familiar. For the past couple of years it has been a well publicised concept used to describe how pharmacists, and other professionals, can improve patient outcomes by helping patients get the most out of their medicines.Although medicines optimisation is not just an agenda for pharmacy, the profession is ideally placed to lead it and last month the Royal Pharmaceutical Society published guiding principles on medicines optimisation for healthcare professionals (see Box, p130).
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