In 2018,1 attended one of the the first workshops of NHS Englang's Medicies Optimisation in Care Homes' training pathway. This 18-month scheme for pharmacy professionals was facilitated by the Centre for Postgraduate Pharmacy Education, in partnership with Health Education England, and energy was high. As part of this, we were expected to undertake a quality improvement project (QIP) and during a discussion about anticholinergics, falls, cognitive decline and increased mortality of older people who are vulnerable to side effects, I had an idea for my own QIP: reducing the anticholinergic burden (ACB) score for care home residents.
展开▼
