Sector is cautious over NMS and targeted MURs delivery plan

For goodness sake lets just crack on with the services and prove to the NHS we are health professionals.
Yes its going to be hard work and it would be good to have the service specifications sooner rather than later but for people to moan about not being ready for targetted MUR's is just behaving like an ostrich with its head in the sand.
Lets grab the opportunity to help our patients!
Targetted MUR's will also stop the multiples from abusing the MUR process with unnecessary MUR's.

The service can certainly be implmented in October. The quality and clinical in put is really important. What is sad is that the PSNC still works in its typical style under a "veil of secrecy" and has not communicated with or included "coal face" clinically oriented community pharmacists with the right experience around the service design and training. The independents have no voice in any of this except perhaps in a very minor way through the NPA.

From a professional perspective the quality is less important than the number and when you equate the fee to task it suggests a central desire for a quality service. As a hospital pharmacist more than happy to work with local community pharmacists around information needs and identifying suitable patients in line with agreed locally determined criteria.

A chance to move away from a supply focus into a funded clinically orientated service I hope colleagues sieze the opportunity to improve patient care and safety.