Medication non-adherence is a huge financial burden for the NHS as well as causing additional morbidity/mortality for the individual patient. Complete the following quiz to consider aspects of this.
What percentage of patient’s prescribed life-long medicines stop taking them within six months?
- 5-15% (False)
- 25-40% (False)
- 44-70% (True)
Unused medicines cost the UK taxpayer…
- £3million/year (False)
- £30million/year(False)
- £300million/year (True)
Approximately 4% of UK hospital admissions are a result of avoidable medicine-related illness, what percentage of these admissions result from patient’s not taking medications as prescribed?
- 11-30% (True)
- 35-42% (False)
- 47-53% (False)
What percentage of CHD patients do not take all their medications
- 65% (False)
- 75% (True)
- 85% (False)
Good medication compliance would prevent how many people having a heart attack each year
- 25,000 (True)
- 30,000(False)
- 35,000(False)
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Page last reviewed: 04 Jun 2020
