Medicines

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LLR polypharmacy pilot improving outcomes and reducing hospital admissions

A pilot across four primary care networks in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland has shown how multi-disciplinary team medication reviews across primary and secondary care can improve patient outcomes and reduce hospital admissions.

Find out more about the pilot

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Improving the management of non cancer pain – reducing harm from opioids

Find out how we improving the management of non cancer pain by reducing harm from opioids. 

Learn more about how we are improving the management of non cancer pain

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Polypharmacy: Getting the balance right

Polypharmacy is when people are prescribed many different medicines for one or more health conditions; this can lead to unintended consequences, such as hospital admission, adverse drug events, and non-adherence issues.

Learn more about our Polypharmacy: Getting the balance right programme

Helping people with a learning disability, at risk of behaviour that challenges, to avoid harm from psychotropic medicines.

Find out about the support we are currently offering, as part of the MedSIP programme, to help systems to reduce harm from psychotropic medicines.

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Familial Hypercholesterolaemia (FH)

Explore how we're supporting our systems to improve patients care and outcomes by effectively identifying and treating patients with Familial Hypercholesterolaemia.

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Lipid Optimisation

Supporting our systems to improve patients care and outcomes by effectively identifying and treating patients with hypercholesterolaemia (patients with high cholesterol).

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