The benefits of Medicine Use Reviews to:

Patients

• Individual time to build a relationship with their pharmacist
• Provides an opportunity to ask questions about their medicines
• To learn about their medicines and how they should take them to get the most out of them
• An improvement in their health outcomes through enhanced treatment

Pharmacists

• To utilise their skills effectively
• Builds trusting relationships with their patients
• Integration with the healthcare team
• Provides a new business opportunity
• Builds on services offered to the community

General Practitioners

• Highlights difficulties patients may have in taking their medicines
• Reduction in workload through medicine management
• Increased health in local community
• Development of collegial relationship with primary healthcare team

District Health Boards / Primary Healthcare Organisations

• Reduction in drug expenditure and medicine wastage
• Increased population health
• Effective medication use
• Reduction in medicine related hospitalisations
• Increased access to primary health care