‘Your medicines matter’ Facebook posts

These suggested Facebook posts can be used to help support the campaign through your Facebook page. They can be used alongside the digital materials provided in the ‘Your medicines matter’ toolkit – for example, the poster and flyer.

Please feel free to amend these as you feel most appropriate for your setting and where possible link through to the relevant section of your website where more ‘Your medicines matter’ information is available.

Please use the hashtag #Yourmedicinesmatter, so we can measure the digital reach of the campaign.

Thank you.

Suggested Facebook posts

Hospitals across Greater Manchester have launched a campaign called ‘Your medicines matter’ to remind patients and carers to bring their medicines when they come into hospital for an appointment, are admitted or need to go to A&E #Yourmedicinesmatter #NHS #Medicines #Hospital

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Remember. ‘Your medicines matter’. It is important to bring your medicines into hospital because you will:

help hospital staff decide on the best and safest treatment for you continue taking medicines you recognise reduce waste and the cost of hospitals reissuing medicines you already have help reduce delays when it is time to go home.

#Yourmedicinesmatter #NHS #Medicines #Hospital

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“By bringing your own medicines into hospital it allows us to get a quick and accurate picture of everything you are taking or using. This helps us to provide safe and appropriate care and also means your medicines are available to take from the start of your admission,” said Gareth Adams, Greater Manchester Hospital Pharmacy Transformation Collaborative.#Yourmedicinesmatter #NHS #Medicines #Hospital

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We are supporting the ‘Your medicines matter’ campaign. If more patients could remember to bring their medicines into hospital it would reduce the costs of having to supply duplicate medicines. Resupplying medicines for patients who leave theirs at home contributes to the region’s significant medicine waste. If levels of medicines waste in Greater Manchester match those seen across the country this could equate to £18.8m annually which, if saved, could be reinvested into providing front-line care for patients. #Yourmedicinesmatter #NHS #Medicines #Hospital