NHS Discharge Medicines Service: part five

Welcome to the fifth module in our series looking at the NHS DMS. It is based on the Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education (CPPE) NHS Discharge Medicines Service: improving outcomes for patients transferring care e-learning programme, and is designed to give pharmacy technicians an overview and better understanding of this area of practice.

Learning objectives

After reading this module pharmacy technicians will:

• Understand the steps community pharmacy professionals need to take to deliver a high quality NHS DMS
• Be able to develop an action plan for the pharmacy.