 The LPC has been working with South Tyneside Council public health to develop an exciting short term innovative service to help vulnerable high risk adults. We were surprised to learn that 250 adults are homeless in South Tyneside and sadly many die. The hope was that an some healthcare interventions would help.
The council have secured funding to pilot a multidisciplinary approach to engage with this highly at risk group. The LPC is looking for 5 pharmacists with a passion to help these individuals to step forward and volunteer. You will be required to be available for approximately 5 half day (remunerated) sessions working in various church halls / soup kitchens / hostels engaging with people and providing pharmaceutical services and health interventions / advice. The exact nature of the work is yet to be determined but those interested will be involved in the front-line, working alongside other organisations such as First Contact Clinical and Barnardos. If you wish to put your self forward or want further information, please contact our Secretary Louise for further details; [email protected]
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 South Tyneside CCG has been in touch with your LPC about a short term project working with South Tyneside Practices. The LPC is calling for pharmacist volunteers to come forward to work within local practices in a practice support role on a short term sessional basis. Work to be undertaken will include: medication reviews, repeat dispensing initiation, aligning prescriptions against local formulary choices. Pharmacists who would like to do this work must have a clear understanding of emis and practice support experience as there is no training available.
There is also an opportunity to provide some sessions to young parents outlining "think pharmacy first" scheme. For further details or expressions of interest please contact our secretary Louise on [email protected] before 12 noon on Friday 24th February. Following our quality payments event the LPC agreed to send out an updated Quality Payment Checklist to help simplfy the requirements and deadlines required. This checklist can be downloaded below This checklist along with the Pharmoutcomes Assessment page will help contractors to achieve the maximum quality points. Pharmoutcomes The Pharmoutcomes module is accessed by clicking on the assessment tab on Pharmoutcomes. The module allows you to record your points and also contains links to the PSNC website for all the resources needed to understand and achieve the various points. Dementia Friends Don't forget we also have 2 more dementia friends training sessions running on the 28th February and 29th March. Click Here to book yourself or your staff on.   The LPC is saddened to learn that our CCGs have decided to go down the road of encouraging GPs to prescriber some specific branded generics.
Whilst we understand the financial pressure that CCGs are under, we have consistently argued against this practice as it undermines general prescribing guidance and removes profit from local pharmacies by interfering with the national community pharmacy contract. Community pharmacies are already struggling following the imposition of the DOH cuts, and this is certainly going to make local pharmacies less viable and will lead to reductions in local services offered by community pharmacy and hence have an impact on the public. The perceived savings made by the CCG are not true savings but ultimately end up back into the global sum which is re-distributed nationally. Gateshead CCG have decided that pregabalin should be prescribed as Alzain brand and South Tyneside CCG are moving forward with branded prescribing for buprenorphine patches (reletrans) , Fentanyl patches (Mezolar) and Quetiapine XL (sondate XL). Pharmacists are encouraged to adjust stock accordingly. Communication with local community pharmacy will be carried out by practice pharmacist where appropriate. The LPC would encourage pharmacists to make use of intervention MURs as a tool to help explain these changes to patients. Where EPS is in place messages may be added to the patient's prescription requesting the pharmacist informs the patient of any changes. |
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