Patient safety is flavour of the week:it runs through a number of stories we are covering.Arguably the simplest decision for pharmacists to make on the safety front is to undertake to talk to as many old people as they can next week about their medicines,in order to check that they understand why they are taking them and to sort out any problems they may be having.Why next week?It is the fourth Ask About Medicines Week (p542),and it focuses on the fact that although 80 per cent of the over-75s take at least one medicine,half of them do not take their medicines as intended.
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