{"id":34442,"date":"2024-11-26T16:21:24","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T16:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bnssghealthiertogether.org.uk\/?page_id=34442"},"modified":"2025-01-15T22:59:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T22:59:06","slug":"supporting-research-on-medicines-waste","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bnssghealthiertogether.org.uk\/sq\/integrated-care-board\/research-and-evidence\/impact-case-studies\/supporting-research-on-medicines-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"Mb\u00ebshtetja e k\u00ebrkimit mbi mbetjet e ila\u00e7eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"assembler_default-group assembler_module_group assembler_default-group_1 assembler_module_group_1\"><div class=\"assembler_module_area assembler_module_area_1\"><div class=\"assembler_text-module assembler_module assembler_text-module_1 assembler_module_1  transparent\"><a tabindex=\"-1\" title=\"Seksioni me titull module-1\" id=\"module-1\" href=\"https:\/\/bnssghealthiertogether.org.uk\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34442\/#module-1\" class=\"anchor\"><span class=\"hidden\">Seksioni me titull module-1<\/span><\/a><!-- Template found for text-module - Template: template-text - Matched: _only --><section class=\"w-full mx-auto max-w-content pt-12 sm:pt-24 pb-12 sm:pb-24\">\r\n  <div class=\"entry-content w-full !px-0 max-w-small\">\r\n        <h1>Mb\u00ebshtetja e k\u00ebrkimit mbi mbetjet e ila\u00e7eve<\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8415\" src=\"https:\/\/bnssghealthiertogether.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Tablets_small.original-300x154.png\" alt=\"A mix of pills demonstrating medication\" width=\"300\" height=\"154\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In 2016, NHS Bristol Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) published a report on medicines waste. Figures revealed at least \u00a35 million is spent on unused medication each year in Bristol and \u00a3300 million nationally. The report identified huge potential for improvements to patient care and use of NHS resources.<\/p>\n<p>ICB <a href=\"https:\/\/bnssghealthiertogether.org.uk\/sq\/integrated-care-board\/research-and-evidence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ekipi i k\u00ebrkimit<\/a> saw the potential of collaborating with local academics to investigate possible solutions to this problem. We facilitated a meeting between the author of the CCG report and academics at the University of Bristol.<\/p>\n<h2>Ndikimi yn\u00eb<\/h2>\n<p>We invested \u00a318K in Dr Rupert Payne, from the University of Bristol, to undertake a short-term project to co-develop a research application to the NIHR. The application to the NIHR was successful, and the CCG was awarded \u00a31.8 million in October 2017 to investigate optimising polypharmacy in primary care.<\/p>\n<p>Optimising polypharmacy is the process a pharmacist or GP undertakes to consider a patient\u2019s whole medication list, rather than treating each medication individually. They might reduce the number of drugs a patient takes, or change their prescription list to increase their wellbeing. This helps to improve medicines waste.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\r\n  <\/section><\/div><!-- .assembler_text-module.assembler_module.assembler_text-module_1.assembler_module_1..transparent --><\/div><!-- .assembler_module_area.assembler_module_area_1 --><\/div><!-- .assembler_default-group.assembler_module_group.assembler_default-group_1.assembler_module_group_1  -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Section titled module-1 Supporting research on medicines waste In 2016, NHS Bristol Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) published a report on medicines waste. Figures revealed at least \u00a35 million is spent on unused medication each year in Bristol and \u00a3300 million nationally. The report identified huge potential for improvements to patient care and use of NHS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":32870,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34442","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bnssghealthiertogether.org.uk\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bnssghealthiertogether.org.uk\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bnssghealthiertogether.org.uk\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bnssghealthiertogether.org.uk\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bnssghealthiertogether.org.uk\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34442"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bnssghealthiertogether.org.uk\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36087,"href":"https:\/\/bnssghealthiertogether.org.uk\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34442\/revisions\/36087"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bnssghealthiertogether.org.uk\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bnssghealthiertogether.org.uk\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bnssghealthiertogether.org.uk\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}