Health Innovation Wessex (HIW) is the national lead for the Health Innovation Network's (HIN) Medicines Optimisation (MO) Programme and works collaboratively with the other 14 Health Innovation Networks to develop, share and spread good practice. The overarching aim of the MO programme is to help patients get the maximum benefit from their medicines.
Our projects have the principles of Medicines Optimisation at their heart:
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has highlighted the irrational use of medicines as a major pr... Find out more >
Over the last five years, we have been running the HIW Polypharmacy Action Learning Sets. We take... Find out more >
What is a community of practice?Definition: Communities of practice are groups of people who sha... Find out more >
What is the NHSBSA Polypharmacy Comparator tool?The NHSBSA Polypharmacy Comparator tool consists ... Find out more >
What's happening in Wessex?Wessex Polypharmacy Pilot Action Learning Set (ALS) was developed... Find out more >
What's happening in Wessex?Working together with the Health Innovation Network Polypharmacy Progr... Find out more >
The Health Innovation Network Polypharmacy Programme is working with healthcare professionals to ... Find out more >
For further information about our Medicines Optimisation Programme work, including resources to s... Find out more >
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Mo’s Medicines - Electronic Repeat Dispensing
Mo’s Medicines: from Hospital to Home
Taking charge of your medicines with Mo
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HIN Polypharmacy Action Learning Sets 5 Year Synopsis
Transfer of Care Around Medicines (TCAM) - Lessons learned from the national rollout
Auditing opioid prescribing on discharge from University Hospital Southampton: The case for change
Medicines optimisation case study
Preventing prescribing errors with PINCER
Transfers of Care Around Medicines (TCAM) - now the NHS Discharge Medicines Service
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