Aim of Service Sample Clauses

Aim of Service. To provide holistic pharmaceutical care to patients receiving OST and promote patient’s recovery by: • Providing close liaison with prescriber and treatment services; • Dispensing OST as prescribed according to the patient’s assessed needs; • Ensuring each supervised self administration dose is consumed in accordance with the appropriate Standard Operating Procedure (SOP); • Monitoring the patient’s response to prescribed treatment; • Providing general health advice including pharmaceutical public health services and signposting for access to further advice or assistance; • Promoting patient safety and appropriate harm minimisation strategies. To reduce the risk to individuals and local communities of: • Overuse or underuse of medicines; and • Diversion of prescribed medicines.

Aim of Service. Patients with a confirmed diagnosis of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) may occasionally experience deterioration in their condition. Most will be familiar with the onset of the associated symptoms which can lead to hospitalisation if the medication required to alleviate the condition is not readily available. This service seeks to ensure that patients requiring medication to treat an exacerbation of COPD have reasonable access to supplies of appropriate medicines and that suitable advice is available on their use.

Aim of Service. To provide quality holistic pharmaceutical care to patients receiving disulfiram and promote recovery by: • Providing close liaison with prescriber and treatment services. • Providing a disulfiram service as per Health Board (HB) guidance; in standard circumstances always using the breathalyser as the initial guide for supervision and contacting Alcohol and Drug Recovery Services (ADRS) promptly (within 24 hours) with any single missed dose, any single positive reading or missed instalments. • Dispensing disulfiram as prescribed while adhering to protocol, including during medicine shortages. • Ensuring each supervised self-administration dose is consumed in accordance with the appropriate store Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) • Monitoring the on going response to prescribed treatment. • Providing general health advice including pharmaceutical public health services and signposting for access to further advice or assistance. • Promoting patient safety and appropriate harm minimisation strategies.

Aim of Service. To ensure that patients requiring medication for palliative care and their carers have reasonable access to supplies of appropriate medicines at all times, and that suitable advice is available on their use.

Aim of Service. The Near Patient Drug Monitoring service is designed to be one in which: (i) therapy should only be initiated for recognised indications (as per Shared Care Guidelines clinically ratified by the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Joint Prescribing Group) This initiation includes the Education of Newly Diagnosed and treated Patients which ensures that all newly diagnosed / treated patients (and / or their carers when appropriate) receive appropriate education and advice on management of and prevention of secondary complications of their condition. This should include written information where appropriate. (ii) where applicable, maintenance of patients first stabilised in the secondary care setting should be properly controlled (iii) the service to the patient is convenient (iv) the need for continuation of therapy is reviewed regularly (v) the therapy is discontinued when appropriate (vi) the use of resources by the National Health Service is efficient.

Aim of Service. The key aim for this local commissioned service is to provide a high-quality service to patients to access an initial assessment and diagnosis of a suspected VT. This Agreement supports primary care practitioners to manage the assessment and initiate treatment for a confirmed VT without the need for an onward referral to a hospital pathway. The expectation is that this will ensure the hospital pathway is accessed appropriately, (where the community option is not clinically indicated and/or available)

Aim of Service. 3.1.1 The aim of the Service is to provide support to individuals experiencing homelessness to enable them to move into their own home in the community. This may involve supporting them with multiple issues such as debt, emotional distress, health, employment etc.

Aim of Service. This service specification has been developed in recognition of the work currently undertaken in General Practice. • outlines the requirement for undertaking a holistic wound care assessment, treatment / dressings, prevention of reoccurrence and provide educational advice to support patients in primary care. • covers only enhanced aspects of wound care (see definition of wound below) • seeks to ensure complex wound care services are delivered by competent staff, will work jointly, or refer onto specialist tissue viability or vascular clinics where appropriate. • to deliver improved care to patients and the population • provide equitable services to patients across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough It is intended that this service shall have the following outcomes • improved clinical outcomes for patients and fewer complications and reoccurrences • reduced need for patients to utilise other services • reduce antimicrobial use in line with ICB and National guidance • improved patient experience and satisfaction • reduced health inequalities by improved access to the services • Improved healing times of wounds by seeking holistic wound assessments early in the patient journey and ensuring appropriate referrals are made.

Aim of Service. ECG recordings and interpreting can be done by GPs in the community, thereby reducing the need to refer patients to Secondary or Acute units. This enables patients to have care closer to home and ensures that the time delay from request to investigation is minimal. This service aims to: 1. To provide a 24-hour ECG recording and interpretation service from primary care. 2. To deliver care and early reassurance to patients in a local setting, provide early identification of rhythm abnormalities and avoid unnecessary referrals to secondary care 3. Provide better access to services, earlier diagnosis, avoidance of unnecessary hospital attendance and integrated care

Aim of Service. Both ABPM and HBPM permits the non-invasive measurement of blood pressure over a prolonged period (usually 24 hours) and have been in NICE guidelines for adult hypertension for many years. HBPM is increasingly popular and convenient for patients and its use should be supported and encouraged to confirm diagnosis and in self-monitoring. This service is intended for: 1. Confirming the diagnosis of hypertension in adult patients with a clinic blood pressure measurement between 140/90 and 180/120 2. In addition to clinic measurements, to monitor patients with ‘white coat effect’ or masked hypertension