What to do when patients don’t take their medication
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What to do when patients don’t take their medication

Daniel Allen Health journalist

How to respond to help reduce medicines wastage and improve patients’ health

Up to half of all medication prescribed for long-term conditions is not taken as prescribed, according to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).

Nursing Standard. 36, 8, 35-37. doi: 10.7748/ns.36.8.35.s13

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