Annual cost to the NHS
The value can be studied from the perspective of WTP (costs defined as extra payment), the maximum amount a person would be willing to offer for a good, or of WTA (costs defined as discount or compensation), the minimum monetary amount required for an individual to forgo some good, or to bear some harm [We selected usual care at €0 (level 1). The other three cost levels reflect varying amounts of reimbursement used for medicines in Portugal (100%, 69%, and 40%) applied to the cost of pharmacists’ time for either 15 minutes 4 times a year or 30 minutes twice a year plus the cost of point-of-care measurements.We used a pharmacist cost of €0.75 per minute based on: 2016 operating costs [We used cost of point-of-care measurements as valued by the Pharmacy Customer Loyalty Program Saúda