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Disposal of Medication
0 0 Patients with sight impairments may not be able to check the expiry dates of medication. This is particularly true for PRN – ‘use as required’ medication. It can be helpful to offer for patients to bring medication into you for checking of expiry dates. Most pharmacies offer a medication disposal service, but people…
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Storage of medication
0 0 Please highlight to patients how medication should be stored, especially if it needs refrigerating or not. Consider adding a dispensing flag to identify fridge storage requirements.
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Access medication information leaflets
0 0 E-mail medication safety sheet to patient. Patients who use screen readers can benefit from an electronic copy of the medication safety sheet. If you have the patient’s e-mail address, ask for permission to send the safety sheet to them. Suitable for All medications. Patients who use a screen reader. This is typically patients…
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Distinguish between medication
0 0 Where possible please try to preserve medication so that patients receive what they are used to taking. If you do have to supply an alternate brand (due to supply issues) please contact to let them know and explain the changes, showing them where possible (especially if the tablets have changed colour, shape, size…
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Elastic bands to distinguish same shape medication
0 0 This strategy consists of using elastic bands to help patients understand the doses of medication needed. It is useful when a patient needs to take two similarly packaged medications at different doses. For example, two elastic bands can be attached to a bottle of eyedrops to signify that they should be used twice…
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E-mail medication safety sheet to patient
0 0 Patients who use screen readers can benefit from an electronic copy of the medication safety sheet. If you have the patient’s e-mail address, ask for permission to send the safety sheet to them. Suitable for All medications. Patients who use a screen reader. This is typically patients with severe to profound sight loss.…
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Large Print Medication Labels
0 0 Patients with partial vision can find it difficult to discern the fine print on medication labels. This problem can be offset by printing a pharmacy medication label with much bigger font size and sticking it onto the outer box containing the medication. Suitable for Medication packaged in a box large enough to take…
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