Text reminders 'stop medicine waste'
Posted: 06 Dec 2014, 10:52Text messaging service 'helps people take their pills'
6 December 2014 Last updated at 00:01
A text messaging service could help people remember to take the medicines they have been prescribed, say researchers.
A test scheme, which involved heart patients, cut the numbers who forgot or just stopped taking their pills.
One in six was helped to continue their treatment, reducing their risk of heart attack and stroke.
It has been estimated that the NHS spends more than £500m on wasted medicines and avoidable illness.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-30348499
6 December 2014 Last updated at 00:01
A text messaging service could help people remember to take the medicines they have been prescribed, say researchers.
A test scheme, which involved heart patients, cut the numbers who forgot or just stopped taking their pills.
One in six was helped to continue their treatment, reducing their risk of heart attack and stroke.
It has been estimated that the NHS spends more than £500m on wasted medicines and avoidable illness.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-30348499