MidCPG Medicine Management Service (MMS) Waikato

Please refer patients by emailing: pharmacyreferrals@midcpg.co.nz

MidCPG employees clinical/mobile pharmacists to provide Medicine Management Services (Medicine Use Reviews (MUR), Medicine Therapy Assessments (MTA)) to eligible high needs patients across Waikato.

This is a FREE service to patients, and anyone (clinicians, patients, whānau) can refer a person who is struggling with understanding and management of their medicines.

MMS service details

MMS Pharmacists arrange appointments and visit patients in their home or at an agreed clinic site to conduct a thorough consultation that includes but is not limited to:

• answering medicine related questions
• discussing and improving patient’s understanding of their medical conditions and medicines
• simplifying medicine regimes to improve adherence
• reconciling medicine records (discharges, clinics, GP) with dispensed prescriptions patients are collecting.
• suggesting improvements in patient’s medicine therapy in collaboration with their GP.

A Medicine Management visit will benefit patients who:

• are taking multiple medications
• have had recent medicine changes
• are confused about their medication or health condition
• have just been discharged from hospital
• are newly diagnosed with a long-term condition (ie. Diabetes, Heart, Respiratory, Parkinsons, Rheumatology etc)
• take long-term medications.

The patient will receive a personalised medication card and patient plan with agreed action points, also the patients GP, pharmacy and referrer will receive a report from the consultation.

Medication education sessions/forums: MidCPG pharmacists are available to provide medication education sessions / forums for patients / kaumatua groups across the Waikato.

Call 07 858 5921 or email pharmacyreferrals@midcpg.co.nz.

1. Emergency Contraceptive Pill Counselling under 24.
2. Smoking Cessation Education, Provision of NRT and Referral.
3. Oral Anticoagulant Education (Warfarin, Dabigatran and Rivaroxaban).
4. Gout Management and Patient Education.
5. Methotrexate Patient Education.
6. Childhood, Adolescent and Adult Asthma Management.
7. Sore Throat Management for the Prevention of Rheumatic Fever.
8. Gestational Diabetes Glucose Meter Education.
9. Head Lice and Scabies Education.
10. Skin Assessment Service (Eczema and Impetigo) Pilot – to be reviewed.
11. Medicine use review (MUR) in community pharmacy.
12. Pre-medication oversight medicine assessments.

'Strong & Stable' is an ACC falls prevention programme managed and facilitated by MidCPG.

The programme facilitates group based strength and balance classes run by trained instructors for older people in Waikato communities with an aim to increase leg and core strength and improve balance to reduce falls and fractures.

• Group sessions are scheduled throughout the week across the greater Waikato.
• Any older person can attend sessions.
• Doctors, nurses, physios, pharmacists, and other health professionals can refer to approved classes.

Midland Community Pharmacy Group
info@midcpg.co.nz
www.midcpg.co.nz
07 858 5921