Pharmacies

What are the benefits of building your HMR business?

Home Medicines Reviews are a great way to improve the health outcomes for your patients through their increased understanding and compliance, as well as strengthening your relationships with the local GP network.
It also builds customer loyalty by adding an entirely new dimension to the conventional Pharmacy-Patient relationship which is so important in this continually changing landscape in which we work.

Do you have an accredited pharmacist you can call on?

GMV Health Services can help you build your HMR business without any extra staff. We will take care of your HMR referral from the time that you receive the referral and pass it on to us, until the final report has been completed and in the hands of the pharmacy and the referring GP. We will even help you claim.

Would you like to conduct the interviews and have us write the report?

Alternatively if you do not have an accredited pharmacist available because of your location or would simply prefer to conduct the interview yourself our HMR Report Writing Service will assist you with this. We will supply individualised Patient Interview Forms for each referral in order for you to gain maximum relevant information during the interview. Then GMV Health Services will complete the HMR Report for you once the interview has taken place. We will send the completed Home Medicines Review (HMR) report to the referring general practitioner for you.

How can GMV Health Services help you build your HMR business?

The Home Medicines Review (HMR) process usually begins with a general practitioner (GP) identifying and assessing potential individuals who would benefit from a medication review.

However, community pharmacies can also play an integral role in identifying potential recipients of this service by sending a referral to a consumer’s GP.

Some examples of those who are eligible for a Home Medicines Review include, but not limited to patients:

Taking five or more medicines a day
– Recently discharged from hospital
– Displaying confusion about their medicines
– Taking medications with a narrow therapeutic index e.g. warfarin
– Using drug delivery devices e.g. asthma aerosols or insulin injections
– With dexterity, mental or vision impairment issues

We can provide you with a customised GP referral form that you can use to let the customer’s GP know about your concerns. We can also provide you with HMR pamphlets that you can use to explain the benefits of the service to your customers.

We are also able to help you design a advertising campaign to build your HMR business and receive a healthy supplementary income stream from direct commissions payable for the HMR service. As well as this, improved patient compliance leads to an increase in frequency of prescriptions being filled and an increase in the use of vital non-prescription medications to augment conventional disease management eg Calcium and Vitamin D supplementation in Osteoporotic patients.
An innovative approach to HMRs will help attract new customers to your business

Please contact us and we will help you develop a model that suits you, your pharmacy and your customers.