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When patients don’t take their medication: how to tackle non-adherence
What you can do to help reduce medicines wastage and improve patients’ health
What you can do to help reduce medicines wastage and improve patients’ health
- The financial and personal health burden of medication non-adherence is huge – and has remained virtually unchanged for many years
- The reasons why patients don’t take medicines as prescribed are various and complex, including confusion over regimens, reluctance to accept diagnosis and busy lives
- How you can help improve adherence and well-being by taking into account patients’ individual needs and circumstances
Up to half of all medication prescribed for long-term conditions is not taken as prescribed, according to the National Institute for Health and
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