New medicines service

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Welcome to the New medicine service page.

The new medicines service is an advanced service which aims to support patients with long-term conditions who are prescribed a medicine for the first time. It focuses on specific patient conditions and therapy areas. The 2014 evaluation of the new medicines service found that patients adherence increased by about 10%, and that a large number of medicine problems were identified and dealt with by community pharmacy. This service is now part of the pharmacy contract quality payments scheme.

On this page you will find information about the knowledge and skills required to provide a new medicines service. There are a variety of resources to support you to increase your understanding and enable you to you demonstrate that you can provide this service. You must complete a self-assessment of readiness before you provide the service, and you can find information about this self-assessment process on this page.

If you want to extend your learning, why not have a look at the programmes on the specific therapy areas that the new medicines service covers. They aim to increase your confidence supporting patients with specific advice, and suggest useful resources that you can use to plan and take part in effective patient-centred consultations.

When you have worked through this e-learning programme, you will have gained an understanding of how the NMS should be delivered in a patient-centred, effective way as part of your day-to-day practice.

Learning Outcomes:

• describe the background of the NMS, including the evidence base
• describe possible options to engage and recruit patients into the service
• explain how to deliver a patient-centred approach to supporting individuals with their medicines.

This resource is for the PSNC web page providing information for the New Medicine Service (NMS)

The New Medicine Service (NMS) was the fourth Advanced Service to be added to the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework; it commenced on 1st October 2011.

This resource will provide links to the The NMS-Project study reports.