Manage Medicines – a new toolkit for polypharmacy patients and carers
- Area of Work: The ALLIANCE
- Type: News Item
- Published: 18th January 2023
A new web and mobile toolkit has been developed for people taking multiple medicines, providing guides and decision-making tools
‘Polypharmacy: Manage Medicines’ is a new web and mobile toolkit aimed at supporting patients and carers to feel more confident about their medicines, and to engage as partners with healthcare professionals in making decisions about their medicines.
Manage Medicines provides tools and information resources to support self management and shared decision-making by patients and professionals during consultation and medicines review. This toolkit supports patients to prepare in advance of meeting with their healthcare professional, and to follow up on key issues after the meeting.
It features a ‘Medicines A-Z’, a dictionary of medicines taken from the NHS UK website; explains in detail the process of ‘medicines review’ (a meeting with a doctor or a pharmacist to talk about the medicines you are currently taking); and allows users to create a personalised list of medicines they are currently taking, easily accessing information about them. A user guide, and training videos, are available in the Help and More Info section.
This is a national resource, developed by the Scottish Government Effective Prescribing and Therapeutics Division in collaboration with patients and carers and the Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre.
You can access the toolkit in two ways:
- Via the web, by visiting the Manage Medicines website and click on the “For Patients and Carers” toolkit
- As a downloadable mobile app on the Apple or Google Play app stores. Search for “Manage Medicines” and click on “Download”. When you open the app, you will be presented with a list of toolkits – choose “For Patients and Carers.”
The team developing the resource would value your feedback on this toolkit by answering a few questions via their online survey. Your views and comments will help them to develop the toolkit further to meet everyone’s needs.
Please contact ann.wales@dhi-scotland.com with any questions.
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