Primary care clinical pharmacists and chronic disease medication adherence

The NHS Long Term Plan emphasises the vital role of prevention in the NHS of the future.1 Optimising patients’ medical management of chronic disease is an opportunity for primary care. Primary Care Network-based Population Health Management interventions have the potential to augment existing services. Pharmacist-led interventions to improve chronic disease medication adherence have been shown to be effective.2–4 A study of the New Medicine...