A retrospective audit of medicines use review forms

van den Berg, M. and Donyai, P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5403-6170 (2010) A retrospective audit of medicines use review forms. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 18 (S1). pp. 33-34. ISSN 0961-7671 doi: 10.1111/j.2042-7174.2010.00027.x

Abstract/Summary

The medicines use review (MUR) service was introduced in England and Wales in 2005 to improve patients’ knowledge and use of medicines through a private, patient–pharmacist consultation. The pharmacist completes a standard form as a record of the MUR consultation and the patient receives a copy. The 2008 White Paper, Pharmacy in England[1] notes some MURs are of poor or questionable quality and there are anecdotal reports that pharmacists elect to conduct ‘easy’ MURs with patients on a single prescribed medicine only.[2] In 2009, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) launched a multi-disciplinary audit template to review the effectiveness of MURs and improve their quality.[3] Prior to this, we conducted a retrospective MUR audit in a 1-month period in 2008. Our aims were to report on findings from this audit and the validity of using MUR forms as data for audit.