If you care for someone who takes a lot of tablets each day you’ll probably know how blister packs can reduce some of the stress.<\/p>\n
Also known as Monitored Dosage Systems (MDS) – all a patient’s pills are organised into compartments and sorted by days of the week and specific times.<\/p>\n
Community Pharmacy NI estimates that more than 50,000 people in Northern Ireland get assistance like this each week but that “many pharmacy teams are at capacity”. <\/p>\n
That’s the case for pharmacist Orfhlaith McAreavey who said she had to turn people down on a daily basis. <\/p>\n
“If someone has sadly passed away, we might have a space to be able to fit them in, but yeah, it’s a really in-demand service,” she said.<\/p>\n
In a statement, the Department of Health said decisions on MDS packs were made on a “case-by-case” basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you care for someone who takes a lot of tablets each day you’ll probably know how blister…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[103,61,60,371],"class_list":["post-461342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-medication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}