Encouraging manufacturers to supply stability data

摘要

At Boots The Chemists we support the view taken by Claire Church and Jane Smith (PJ,21 January,pp75-81) that there are insufficient short term stability data available for medicines and we encourage manufacturers to provide fact-based data on this subject in the future.Increasing numbers of patients receive medicines in compliance aids to help them get best use from their medicines and to reduce the likelihood of mistakes in administration.Carers of patients welcome the additional safety,security and compliance that such aids can bring to the management of medicines and have been known to make strong representations to pharmacists when a medicine is omitted from a compliance aid on stability grounds.