Services Database Home Optimisation of Medicines (HOMe) Service (Kingston Area)

The aims of the HOMe Service are to optimise housebound patients’ medicines to maximise the value that patients derive from their medicines, to reduce hospital admissions and/or readmissions and to reduce medicines waste by:

• improving the patient’s understanding of their medicines and why they are taking them;
• improving access to medicines by putting in place systems for the ordering and/or collection of prescriptions and/or delivery of medicines where needs are identified;
• improving adherence to medication by putting in place systems to support adherence where needs are identified;
• using the expertise and knowledge of pharmacists on the use of medicines to reduce the incidence of adverse drug effects and/or side effects where possible;
• checking that appropriate monitoring of medicines is occurring;
• reducing wastage of medicines;
• arranging for carer disposal of medicines no longer required and/or are out of date;
• producing measurable outcomes on the likely reductions in emergency hospital admissions as a result of the interventions made; and 
• informing future developments in pharmaceutical services to the housebound population.

The following requirements need to be met:

• Ensure named pharmacists delivering the service have a current DBS check (within the last 2 years); 
• Declare that the pharmacy is IG level 2 compliant; and 
• Ensure named pharmacists delivering the service have attended any relevant training sessions by Kingston CCG.