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    Medicine Matters – Autumn 2019

    Posted on: 2nd December 201930th October 2020

    Medicine Matters – Autumn 2019

    Includes:

    • Timing of doses – with focus on those that are time sensitive
    • National Medicines Optimisation in Care Home initiative
    • Lessons learned from a prescription ordering incident
    • Annual ‘flu vaccination campaign
    • Reminder of the importance of always writing insulin doses as “units” in full

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