Ask your health professional if you are unsure about your medication

Communicating with your doctor, pharmacist and/or nurse is a really important part of making sure you get the most from your medicines.

Sharing your experience about your medicines is really important. If you find a medicine hard to take, or if it seems to be causing side effects, you and your healthcare professional can discuss how to change your medicines to suit you better.

If you want to stop, reduce, or think you need more of a medicine, discussing this with a healthcare professional can mean you do this safely.

Changes to your medicines? 

Ask your doctor, pharmacist or nurse to explain any changes to your medicines. It’s important to keep the list up-to-date by adding any new medicines to the list or drawing a line through any medicines you no longer take

Know Check Ask is a medication safety campaign developed to support the World Health Organisation's third Global Patient Safety Challenge: Medication Without Harm. 

Sourced from the National Medication Safety Programme, (Safermeds), HSE Ireland, (https://www2.healthservice.hse.ie/organisation/qps-improvement/national-medication-safety-programme-safermeds/get-started)