NHS Discharge Medicines Service
When you leave Wythenshawe, MRI or Trafford General with new medicines, it is easy to get muddled. The NHS Discharge Medicines Service connects you with a registered pharmacist who reviews everything together with you, free of charge, at our pharmacy in Urmston.
If the hospital pharmacist judges that your discharge prescription has more than one or two changes, or you have started a high-risk medicine such as a blood thinner, you are flagged on the NHS spine. The next time you collect from us we book you in for a DMS chat.
A line-by-line review of what is new, what has been stopped, what doses have changed, what to do if you miss a dose, common side effects to look out for in the first fortnight and how each medicine fits with anything you were taking before hospital. We also reconcile your repeat list with the GP so nothing slips through.
A second appointment around four weeks later checks you are on top of things. If you are not, we work with you and the GP to simplify.
Free for any patient referred to us through the NHS Discharge Medicines Service after admission to an English NHS hospital.
No. The hospital pharmacist decides. If you think you should have been referred and were not, ring us anyway and we will offer an informal medicines chat.
We can still help. The DMS referral on the NHS spine follows you regardless of where your repeats come from.
Twenty minutes in the consultation room or over the phone, depending on what suits you.
Or call 0161 748 3016