[Ontario] Pharmacists Association and Medical Association Meeting

"Staff from the Ontario Pharmacists Association met with senior representatives from the Ontario Medical Association (OMA) this week to discuss various areas in which pharmacists and physicians are increasingly working together to provide care to their mutual patients....

The OMA also provided some suggestions for pharmacies, based on physician feedback, to help their members better navigate the MedsCheck program, with the ultimate goal of helping patients and physicians get the most out of the program.  These suggestions include:

• If there are recommendations for the physician to respond to, as a part of the MedsCheck documentation, pharmacists should highlight them (for example, using bolded and/or large text) on the Healthcare Notification Form which will help draw the physician’s attention to them.
• Physicians have asked that pharmacy staff NOT fax more pages than are required – the Healthcare Notification Fax Cover Page and the Personal Medication Record in almost all cases are sufficient.  Additional information, such as the Pharmacist Worksheet, should only be provided upon request by a physician.
  
• Pharmacists should anticipate that physician responses may take a few days, as when the faxes are received at the office, the physician may be seeing patients and may not able to review transmission right away.  Additionally, the physician may require further information to make a clinical decision that requires follow-up with the patient, thus further delaying any response."
  

 

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