Before you begin, have you completed the first module in this series?
Part one: Polypharmacy explained

CPD activity

Before you start reading this article, think about:

• What do I want to learn?
• What will I gain from this learning?
• What will my employer gain?
• What difference will it make to people who use my services?

In part 1 of this series, the issues of polypharmacy were outlined, along with the pharmacy team’s role in identifying and engaging patients to address polypharmacy. This module considers how pharmacy teams can optimise medicines for patients taking multiple medicines.

Medicines optimisation encompasses many aspects of improving medicines use and is fundamental to addressing the challenges posed by polypharmacy.