Scottish Government, through Effective Prescribing & Therapeutics, was lead partner in iSIMPATHY – Implementing Stimulating Innovation in the Management of Polypharmacy and Adherence Through the Years.
iSIMPATHY was a 3-year EU funded project (2019-2022) operating in Northern Ireland, Scotland and the border areas of the Republic of Ireland.
iSIMPATHY sought to transform the approach to optimisation of medicines through the delivery of medicine reviews to over 6,000 patients taking multiple medicines, and in delivering training to 120 GPs, hospital doctors and pharmacists. It provided a significant contribution towards the embedding of a single approach for polypharmacy management as well as firmly establishing the value of cross-border working in this field.
The project has now concluded and has been fully evaluated, the evaluation report can be found at: