Date Published: 07/04/2021
ARCHIVED - Andalusia health service offers home medicine deliveries for the elderly and disabled
The Andalusian health service will be arranging home deliveries of drugs usually only obtainable from hospital pharmacies by appointment.
An agreement has been drawn up between the Andalusian health service (SAS) and Novartis Group to arrange for vulnerable elderly and disabled patients to have medication usually only dispensed by hospital pharmacies delivered straight to their doors.
Novartis will be putting 74,390 euros towards the new project, which will initially run for one year from nine hospitals in Andalusia: Torrecárdenas in Almeria, Jerez hospital in Cádiz, Reina Sofía in Córdoba, Virgen de las Nieves in Granada, Regional and Clínico in Málaga and Virgen del Rocío, Macarena and Valme in Seville.
The money must be spent on hiring logistical operators for the deliveries, and patients who are to receive deliveries will have to sign specific consent forms the hospitals will be drawing up.
The regional government explained that the initiative aims to improve the quality of hospital services and patient experience and satisfaction in the context of a pandemic which can make patients feel wary of going to hospitals to collect their prescriptions.
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