MEDICAL SURGERIES

Choice QUM can help your clinic unleash the potential of Home Medication Reviews. 

Complete the online form to learn how Choice QUM                                                                                  can be your 'Partner in Quality Use of Medicines'.

GPs can now refer HMRs directly to Choice QUM


GP Benefits – Choice QUM’s specific HMR service

  • The GP has the fundamental right to select who will be reviewing their patient (not the community pharmacy).  HMRs are conducted by one professional entity, rather than the logistical issues associated with dealing with several retail pharmacies.  
  • Our consultants are full-time clinical medication review specialists (not community pharmacists) which enables us to target practical and clinically relevant issues (and without any potential conflict of interests).
  • We conduct our reviews and reports in a timely and professional manner.
  • Predictable appreciation of the home medication review visit and positive outcomes adds to the patients’ overall satisfaction with a GP’s ongoing care. This facilitates easy follow-up 12 monthly HMRs.
  • Helping to maximise the patients understanding and compliance with therapy, ensuring the safe and effective use of medications within the home environment. We provide a range of QUM resources and tools to the patient e.g. the Choice QUM HMR Digest
  • Clear and concise reports help facilitate the GP management plan and MBS Item 900.
  • Benefits of a different ‘set of eyes’ (expert clinical consultant pharmacist) in a different environment (the patient’s home).
  • Choice QUM has the administrative ‘back office’ support and clinical workforce to effectively cope with the larger HMR volumes demanded by proactive GPs/clinics.

Send your HMR referrals to Choice QUM directly via Medical Objects.
 

GP Feedback:

“These reports are great, you’ve hit on some really important issues” (GP in north Brisbane)
“I’ve been getting really good feedback from my patients about your home visits” (GP in Bribie Island)
“Your input and help has been fabulous, when can you visit our town again?” (GP in northern NSW)
“Many thanks for conducting these reviews. How many more referrals can you handle this year?” (GP, central Qld)

Clinic and practice staff Benefits

  • Whilst being beneficial to the GP and patient, Choice QUM’s HMR service can contribute significantly to the economic viability of the surgery.
  • We help facilitate the generation of HMR referrals and ease the administration burden in all aspects of the process from obtaining consent to claiming MBS Item 900.
  • Our specialised service helps initiate patient demand for the service and enables ongoing 12 monthly reviews.
  • Enhancing the health care team approach of your clinic’s offering by aligning yourself with the leading clinical pharmacist group in Australia. Under the new HMR referral arrangements (direct referrals to a clinical pharmacist), leading medical clinics will recruit the services of a ‘Practice Pharmacist’ to ensure MBS Item 900 and HMRs become a common service.

Complete this online form to learn how Choice QUM can be you ‘Partner in Quality Use of Medicines’.