Our new polypharmacy and deprescribing update considers national and international resources that help support the understanding of polypharmacy and safe deprescribing, the evidence base for deprescribing and the impact of frailty and multimorbidity on polypharmacy. It also provides a practical guide to support deprescribing; it covers agreeing treatment goals, shared decision making, patient decision aids and tools to support medication review.
Additional resources include algorithms to support the deprescribing of specific medicines which now also have information to support shared decision making as part of the consultation.
