Refer-To-Pharmacy: Pharmacy for the Next Generation Now! A Short Communication for Pharmacy

Abstract

Refer-to-Pharmacy is the first fully integrated hospital to community pharmacy referral system. This article explains the importance of these referrals for patients and health economies to improve medicines optimisation, and how Refer-to-Pharmacy works in both hospital and community pharmacies.

Keywords

• Medicines optimisation
• transfer of care
• referral
• hospital pharmacy
• community pharmacy
• new medicine service
• medicines use review
• medicines waste
• re-admission
• medicines adherence