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My Medication Passport
eLearning Module
Edward Dickinson
Consultant Physician Elderly Medicine
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Overview
• Background
• Key features
• Content
• Production
Background: the challenge
• Polypharmacy is a major issue – elderly people are on
between 4 - 10 medicines
• About 35% of all older people admitted to hospital have
inappropriate prescribing
• ADRs are responsible for 4-5% of hospital admissions
• Up to 70% of patients can have either an error or an
unintentional change to their medication
when their care is transferred
Background: the ImPE project
• Aims to improve prescribing for the elderly
• Evidence based medication review system
• Also to provide patients with better information about
their medicines
• CLAHRC funded
Background: PPI
• PPI is a very strong theme in
CLAHRC work
• Special support and
encouragement
• E.G. Patient digital stories
• Gave rise to “My Medication
Passport”
Background: My Medication Passport
Background: My Medication Passport
• Patient held
• Listing of medications, medication
changes, adverse drug reactions,
allergies, aids etc
• Compatible with RPS principles
for transfer of medication
information
Key features: flip book
Key features: patient delivered
Key features: wider context
Content
• Staff who can use it
• Locations where it is used
• How to complete and issue it
Content
• 10 “slides”
• 10 minutes
• Quiz
• FAQ
• Glossary
Production
• Rapid development – 3 weeks to 1st working draft
• Simple powerpoint presentation
• Assembly of resources
• Standardised portal
• Rapid testing
Overview
• Background
• Key features
• Content
• Production
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