Discharge Medicines Service (DMS)
NEW: DMS referrals from NSFT webinar recording (19/10/22):
The Discharge Medicines Service (DMS) became an Essential service within the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework (CPCF) from 15th February 2021.
The service seeks to ensure better communication of changes made to a patient’s medicines in hospital and its aims are to:
- Optimise the use of medicines, whilst facilitating shared decision making;
- Reduce harm from medicines at transfers of care;
- Improve patients’ understanding of their medicines and how to take them following discharge from hospital;
- Reduce hospital readmissions; and
- Support the development of effective team-working across hospital, community and primary care networks pharmacy teams and general practice teams and provide clarity about respective roles.
ESNEFT, West Suffolk and James Paget Hospitals are all live for referrals and NSFT are going live from November 2022,
Further Information
Discharge Medicines Service : PSNC Main site
Pharmoutcomes DMS training video & User Guide
Useful Resources (other resources can be found in the links above)
DMS Pharmacy Staff Briefing Sheet (PSNC)
DMS Contractor Checklist (PSNC)
DMS Factsheet Community Pharmacies (Feb 21)
PharmOutcomes User Guide DMS Reporting
Suffolk LPC would like to mention that some of the above resources have been used from Avon LPC website and we send our thanks to them in making these available for contractors.
