Resources

Advanced icon This page contains resources produced by PSNC and other organisations to support the MUR service.

Getting started with MURs

East Lancashire LPC MUR resource - Guide to better MURs

10 steps to success with MURs (PDF Format)

Tips for successful MURs

Making a difference with Asthma MURs

How to offer an MUR (PJ October 2004)

Guidance for conducting MURs (PDF Format)
A guide on conducting MURs produced by Derbyshire's PCTs and community pharmacists as part of the Community Pharmacy Framework Collaborative.

RPSGB MUR standards audit (PDF Format)

Consultation areas/rooms

NPA guide - Making best use of consultation areas (PDF Format)

Pharmaceutical Journal feature on consultation rooms (PDF Format)

RPSGB interim guidance on pharmacist supervision and private consultation areas

PSNC guidance on Chaperone Policies

National Clinical Governance Support Team chaperone policy (PDF Format)

Communicating with other healthcare professionals

MUR Information Leaflet for GPs and Practice Managers (PDF Format)

MUR Information Leaflet for GPs and Practice Managers (Microsoft Word Format)

MUR briefing for GPs (with kind permission from Essex LPC)

MUR briefing for stakeholders (with kind permission from Hampshire & IoW LPC) (PDF Format)

Medicines Use Review PowerPoint presentation (with kind permission from Hampshire & IoW LPC)

LPC/LMC MUR briefing for GPs (with kind permission from Hampshire & IoW LPC) (PDF Format)

PSNC has jointly published, with NHS Employers and the General Practitioner Committee of the BMA, a briefing document for GPs on MURs. The document has been prepared as part of the work of the Professional Relations working group that was formed as a result of an action point in the pharmacy White Paper.

Achieving best value from the community pharmacy Medicines Use Review service covers:

what MURs are and what they are not (including how the MUR service differs from a clinical medication review by the GP);
what the MUR consultation covers;
the benefits for both patients and GPs;
top tips for successful and beneficial MURs; and
an outline of some of the circumstances that may prompt the need for an MUR.

Copies of the guidance document can be downloaded using this link: MUR Guidance

The guidance document has been distributed to Local Medical Committees by the GPC. Pharmacists can use the document as a reason to initiate local discussions on MURs where these have not previously occurred. Any pharmacists who are just starting to provide the MUR service may wish to attach a copy of the MUR guidance to the first few MUR forms they send to GPs.

Communicating with patients

MUR: Understand your medicines - a booklet for the public (PDF Format)
The booklets are available to order free of charge from the Department of Health publications orderline (tel 08701 555 455, publication reference no. 270570)

Example of MUR Patient Leaflet (with kind permission from Mark Collins, North West Regional Representative, PSNC) (PDF Format)

Miscellaneous resources

MURs: how the picture is developing (Pharmaceutical Journal 14 Jan 06) (PDF Format)

NHS Confederation Briefing - Essential & Advanced Services (Nov 04) (PDF Format)

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