Table 1.

Patient characteristics

Patient characteristics	Normal practice n (%)	New Medicine Service n (%)
Total n (%)	253 (100.0)	251 (100.0)
Antiplatelet/anticoagulant (n=43, 8.5%)	19 (7.5)	24 (9.6)
Asthma/COPD (n=117, 23.2%)	58 (22.9)	59 (23.5)
Hypertension (n=249, 49.4%)	128 (50.6)	121 (48.2)
Type 2 diabetes (n=95, 18.8%)	48 (19.0)	47 (18.7)
Female (n=260, 51.6%)	135 (53.4)	125 (49.8)
Male (n=244, 48.4%)	118 (46.6)	126 (50.2)
Total cohort age (years) (n: mean (SD))	253: 59.3 (15.0)	251: 59.5 (15.3)
Female age (years) (n: mean (SD))	135: 58.7 (15.4)	125: 56.8 (16.0)
Male age (years) (n: mean (SD))	118: 60.0 (14.6)	126: 62.2 (14.1)
Number of NMS eligible new medicine(s) at study entry, n (%)	Total NMS medicines: 257	Total NMS medicines: 262
1	249 (98.4)	241 (96.0)
2	4 (1.6)	9 (3.6)
3	0 (0.0)	1 (0.4)
Mean (SD) number of other medicines	3.6 (3.4)	3.5 (3.4)
Economic deprivation based on IMD score* (mean (SD))
Pharmacy study sites	30.7 (14.0)	31.1 (13.6)
Study patients	25.0 (15.0)	24.2 (15.3)
Location of pharmacy study site, n (%)
Derbyshire (9 pharmacies)	46 (18.2)	55 (21.9)
South Yorkshire (5 pharmacies)	35 (13.8)	31 (12.4)
Leicestershire (8 pharmacies)	15 (5.9)	10 (4.0)
Nottinghamshire (14 pharmacies)	117 (46.2)	114 (45.4)
Greater London (10 pharmacies)	40 (15.8)	41 (16.3)
Pharmacy ownership†, n (%)
Independent	65 (25.7)	56 (22.3)
Large multiple	63 (24.9)	68 (29.1)
Small multiple	122 (48.2)	123 (49.0)
Supermarket	3 (1.2)	4 (1.6)

*Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) score: score is proportional to level of deprivation. A higher score indicates an area of higher deprivation (English deprivation scores range from 0.5 to 87.8).

†Large multiple and supermarket: the 10 largest pharmacy entities in England. Small multiple: pharmacies with six or more branches. Independent: pharmacies with one to five branches.

COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; NMS, New Medicine Service.