'Polypharmacy can be a good thing and a bad thing'

Have you thought about how you can help patients manage their medicines burden?

C+D clinical editor Kristoffer Stewart spoke to Alpana Mair, head of effective prescribing and therapeutics at the Scottish government, to find out what polypharmacy is and how community pharmacy teams can help reduce the medicines burden for their patients.

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