Keywords: Health
The CCMDD programme provides an alternative mechanism to facilitate access to chronic medicine for stable patients. Prescriptions would be dispensed and packaged offsite and delivered to pre-assessed external pick-up points (PuPs) to provide the patient with a location that may be nearer to their homes or workplace and result in reduced transport costs and decrease the economic burden on the patient. Prescribing is done by public health facilities and dispensing, and PuP services are offered through private contracted parties. External pick-up points (PuPs) provide the patient with a more convenient option for the collection of their repeat medicine which has been dispensed and distributed via the programme, thereby decongesting the facilities.