Aim of the Service. 2.1 To ensure that patients requiring prescribed sharps can return them in an approved sharps container to a community pharmacy for safe disposal.
2.2 To create a network of all community pharmacies to provide information and advice to patients on the safe disposal of prescribed sharps generated by patients in their own home.
Aim of the Service. To provide a community needle and syringe exchange scheme for injecting drug users.
Aim of the Service. The aims of the Targeted weight assessment Pilot Programme are to accurately weigh individuals at high body weight [in excess of 200kg] and to ensure that such individuals are entered into the appropriate care pathway. There are gaps in the patient information currently available and a number of individuals have insufficient information recorded to enable an assessment of suitability for onward referral for bariatric surgery to be made. Therefore NHS Manchester wishes to commission a targeted pilot weight check programme to be delivered across the city in order to supplement the information held on GP practice systems. This service is intended to be in support of the Specialised Weight Management Service (SWMS) The aims of the Targeted Weight Check Pilot Programme are: • To offer targeted weighing in an easily accessible community setting at appropriate times of the day. • To accurately test and record specific anthropometric and lifestyle information. • To communicate this weight to the individual if they require the data. • To accurately and promptly report information to General Practice. .
Aim of the Service. The aim of the Involve Kent is:
Aim of the Service. The Citizen Advice service provides free, independent, confidential and impartial advice to everyone on their rights and responsibilities. It values diversity, promotes equality and challenges discrimination. The service aims: ● To provide the advice people need for the problems they face ● To improve the policies and practices that affect people’s lives. and; To provide free, independent, confidential and impartial advice to everyone on their rights and responsibilities. Value diversity, promote equality and challenge discrimination.
Aim of the Service. 2.1 To enable any suitable patients to be prescribed free Emergency Hormonal Contraception (EHC) under a Patient Group Direction (PGD) in community pharmacies in Cheshire West and Chester. This will contribute to better reproductive health and wellbeing outcomes for women in West Cheshire who require the service. For the evidence base see appendix 1.
Aim of the Service. The principal aim of the service is to help elderly persons carry out small scale works of repair and maintenance to their homes to enable them to live more independently, improve their quality of life and reduce the risk of personal injury. It will complement other agencies such as Daventry Volunteer Centre and schemes run by Helped the Aged etc. The scheme will incorporate home security works and may well be a source of referrals for additional works to Care and Repair.
Aim of the Service. The breastfeeding support service will deliver an evidence base service that will provide support to pregnant women and new mothers to enable them to breastfeed their babies and thus take advantage of the health benefits breastfeeding affords to both mother and baby in the short, medium and long term.
Aim of the Service. To enable any suitable patients to be prescribed free Emergency Hormonal Contraception under a Patient Group Direction (PGD) in community pharmacies in Cheshire West and Xxxxxxx. This will contribute to better reproductive health and wellbeing outcomes for Cheshire West and Xxxxxxx women who require the service.
Aim of the Service. The aim of the Voluntary Action Maidstone is:
