Introduction:

The Pills & Spills Medication Review Service is a team of Clinical Pharmacists and technicians who are employed by Manchester PCT. We specialise in helping people to get the best out of their medications.

Some medicines can increase a person’s risk of falling (by causing them to become unsteady on their feet), so the Pills & Spills Team are particularly keen to review people’s medications to help reduce the risk of them having a fall.

A Pills and Spills medication review involves:

• A meeting with a pharmacist to discuss their medicines to ensure that they are getting the most from them.
• Ensuring a person is taking the right medicines for their condition.
• Trying to reduce the number of medicines a person takes.
• Where possible reducing medicines that can cause falls.
• Ensuring medicines are being monitored properly.
• Making sure no medicines are interacting with each other.
• Reducing the possibility of side effects.
• Answering any questions a person may have about their medicines.

Examples of other support which can be provided by the Pills & Spills Pharmacists and Technicians include: helping people to remember to take their medicines; giving advice about non-prescription and herbal medicines; finding ways to help open medicine containers and providing medicines information leaflets.

Any adult who is taking long term medications and is registered with a GP in Manchester PCT can receive free help from the Project.

How to refer into this service?

Fill out a referral form (appendix e)