When the drugs don’t work

With 6.5% of hospital admissions linked to the adverse effects of medicines, pharmacists Emma McClay and Cherise Gyimah, co-chairs of the English Deprescribing Network, would like community pharmacy to embrace their campaign.

A recent edition of the Radio 4 series Inside Health featured Dr Dan Hawcutt, consultant paediatrician at the Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool, who leads a regular drug optimisation and deprescribing ward round.