Aims and intended service outcomes. 2.1 To ensure timely access to medicines for all patients in emergency situations, where it is not practicable to obtain a prescription.
2.2 To ensure equity of access to the emergency supply provision irrespective of the patient’s ability to pay.
Aims and intended service outcomes. 2.1 To increase access to the NCSP by providing additional locations where people can access screening.
2.2 To increase access to treatment of Chlamydia infection.
2.3 To increase access for young people to sexual health advice and referral on to specialist services where required.
2.4 To increase clients’ knowledge of the risks associated with STIs.
Aims and intended service outcomes. 2.1 The aim of the scheme is to provide palliative care patients with good symptom control and maintenance by ensuring that there is an on-demand supply of palliative care drugs available from a network of pharmacies spread geographically across Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire.
Aims and intended service outcomes. 2.1 To increase the knowledge, especially among young people, of the availability of emergency contraception and contraception from pharmacies.
2.2 To improve access to emergency contraception and sexual health advice.
2.3 To increase the use of EHC by women who have had unprotected sex.
2.4 To help contribute to a reduction in the number of unplanned pregnancies in the client group.
2.5 To refer clients, especially those from hard to reach groups, into mainstream contraceptive services.
2.6 To increase the knowledge of risks associated with STIs.
2.7 To refer clients who may have been at risk of STIs to an appropriate service.
2.8 To strengthen the local network of contraceptive and sexual health services to help ensure easy and swift access to advice.
Aims and intended service outcomes. 2.1 This service aims to ensure that palliative care medicines are available during the participating pharmacy’s normal working hours.
2.2 In order to fulfil its NHS dispensing function the pharmacy contractor is required to hold stock for regular NHS prescriptions. The list of drugs and quantity to be stocked, specifically for this service, is indicated in Appendix A. Pharmacies should ensure that the Palliative Care stock is rotated with the normal stock holding to reduce expiration of stock.
Aims and intended service outcomes. 2.1 To assist the service users to remain healthy until they are ready and willing to cease injecting and ultimately achieve a drug-free life with appropriate support
2.2 To protect health and reduce the rate of blood-borne infections and drug related deaths among service users: by reducing the rate of sharing and other high risk injecting behaviours; by providing sterile injecting equipment and other support; by promoting safer injecting practices; and by providing and reinforcing harm reduction messages.
2.3 To improve the health of local communities by preventing the spread of blood-borne infections by providing a safe and effective route for the disposal of used injecting equipment.
2.4 To help service users access treatment by offering referral to the Wirral Ways to Recovery service and health and social care professionals where appropriate.
2.5 To aim to maximise the access and retention of all injectors, especially the highly socially excluded.
2.6 To help service users access other health and social care providers, acting as a gateway to other services.
2.7 To reduce the number of drug-related deaths associated with opioid overdose.
Aims and intended service outcomes. 2.1 To reduce the number of unwanted medicines dispensed and therefore wasted, by not dispensing items not required by the patient.
2.2 To notify the prescriber when an item prescribed has not been dispensed.
2.3 To promote, support and encourage good repeat / prescribing practices with patients and GP practices.
2.4 To highlight under usage of medicines to the prescriber.
2.5 To inform the prescriber whether the continued supply or non-supply of items would be considered clinically significant.
2.6 To highlight prescribing inefficiencies to the prescriber.
2.7 To reduce unnecessary prescribing costs.
Aims and intended service outcomes. To improve access for people to these specialist medicines when they are required by ensuring prompt access and continuity of supply. To support people, carers and clinicians by providing them with up to date information and advice, and referral where appropriate.
Aims and intended service outcomes. 3:1 To ensure compliance with the agreed treatment plan by:
3:2 To reduce the risk to local communities of:
3:3 To provide clients with regular contact with a health care professional i.e. the pharmacist, and to help them access further advice or assistance. The client will be referred to specialist treatment centres or other health and social care professionals where appropriate.
Aims and intended service outcomes. 3.1 To provide a Tees-wide community pharmacy-based NHS Stop Smoking Service, as an integral part of the wider Tees Stop Smoking & Tobacco Control Strategic Plan and thereby ensure an equitable, high quality service is provided to all clients across the Tees PCTs, regardless of service provider.
3.2 To improve access to opportunities for stop smoking interventions by offering increased convenience, choice of location and extended hours of availability (including times within the usually defined ‘out-of-hours’ period) from the community pharmacy settings.
3.3 Successful implementation of the SLA will • increase clients’ to access stop smoking advice, baseline assessments and follow-up by trained Pharmacy Intermediate Assessors at community pharmacies. • inform client choice of the most appropriate NRT product(s) to support their quit attempt and advise on their safe use, whilst taking into account behavioural dependence, co-morbidities and co-prescriptions. • for those clients who are motivated to stop smoking, enable them to obtain supplies of NRT from community pharmacies without the need for a prescription • provide on-going one-to-one motivational support and advice, normally for a 12/13 week period, with discretion, and in consultation with the Specialist Stop Smoking Service, to increase to a maximum of 16 weeks, to encourage a successful quit attempt. (Any clients requiring ongoing treatment beyond 16 weeks should be referred back to the SSSS for review and specialist intervention) • provide NRT by use of vouchers (appropriate prescription–equivalent charges applied) to clients who have accessed NHS Stop Smoking Services and had an Intermediate Assessment via an alternative route e.g. workplace, secondary care or community setting. The provision of NRT will be supported with appropriate information, advice and monitoring to enable safe and effective use by clients. • provide proactive follow up and support of clients, to promote long term quitters and the achievement of local and national targets as described in section 1.7.
