How polypharmacy reviews for older people living with frailty reduced medications and the need for social care visits: May 2025

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Document Type

Case study

Improvement support

Summary

This insight story demonstrates how polypharmacy reviews for older people living with frailty reduced:

  • medications, and
  • the need for social care visits.

This improvement work took place between May 2023 to December 2024. The services who took part were:

  • NHS Dumfries and Galloway and Dumfries and Galloway HSCP
  • Moray HSCP and NHS Grampian