{"id":746,"date":"2024-02-25T19:32:30","date_gmt":"2024-02-25T19:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imago.cs.manchester.ac.uk\/flag-me-vision\/?p=746"},"modified":"2025-05-29T17:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T16:38:12","slug":"disposal-of-medication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imago.cs.manchester.ac.uk\/flag-me-vision\/disposal-of-medication\/","title":{"rendered":"Disposal of Medication"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"746\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"ip\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">0    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"pld-dislike-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"746\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"ip\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-dislike-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">0<\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Patients with sight impairments may not be able to check the expiry dates of medication. This is particularly true for PRN \u2013 \u2018use as required\u2019 medication. It can be helpful to offer for patients to bring medication into you for checking of expiry dates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most pharmacies offer a medication disposal service, but people with a sight impairment might not readily recognise which medications was dispensed by which pharmacy. Reducing the number of medications at home reduces the opportunities for error.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don\u2019t assume everyone has some else at home to help organise medication as this often isn\u2019t the case and people might not want someone else knowing what medications they are taking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>0 0 Patients with sight impairments may not be able to check the expiry dates of medication. This is particularly true for PRN \u2013 \u2018use as required\u2019 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-vision-strategies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imago.cs.manchester.ac.uk\/flag-me-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imago.cs.manchester.ac.uk\/flag-me-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imago.cs.manchester.ac.uk\/flag-me-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imago.cs.manchester.ac.uk\/flag-me-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imago.cs.manchester.ac.uk\/flag-me-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/imago.cs.manchester.ac.uk\/flag-me-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1214,"href":"https:\/\/imago.cs.manchester.ac.uk\/flag-me-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions\/1214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imago.cs.manchester.ac.uk\/flag-me-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imago.cs.manchester.ac.uk\/flag-me-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imago.cs.manchester.ac.uk\/flag-me-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}