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British Red Cross - Medication Support Service

British Red Cross provide a new service, the first of its kind in Kent, Medi-Call for people of the Maidstone borough:

Medi-Call is compatible with the philosophy of the British Red Cross of Care in the Home schemes, which aim to support people in their own homes through the building of confidence, enabling independence and reducing social isolation.

Acting purely as a prompt for self-medication, the British Red Cross aim to ensure an easier transition to new or revised medication regimes. The service will be available for fourteen days, with the volunteer making as many calls as the service user requires.

Delivered entirely over the telephone, Medi-Call will offer a new sense of support to service users through conversation and encouragement, to help empowerment and diminishing the need for unnecessary admissions or re-admissions to hospital via good medication management.

To find out more, please call the British Red Cross on 01622 625101, Monday to Friday 9am - 5pm.

You can also view the British Red Cross website. This link will open in a new window.

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