Community Pharmacy Services Flashcards
List 6 ways that pharmacies make money?
- Essential services
- Advanced services
- Locally commissioned services
- Private prescription and pharmacy services
- Pharmacy sales
- Specialist services = supplies to prisons/hospices/MOD
List the 3 tiers of service that pharmacies provide if they have an NHS contract
- Essential services
- Advanced services
- Enhanced/locally commissioned services
Describe essential services
- Mandatory
- Paid for offering the whole NHS service and for each patient interaction for dispensing
- E.g. dispensing, sign-posting, promoting healthy lifestyle, clinical governance = SOPs
Describe advanced services
- Optional
- Paid for each patient interaction
- MURs, New Medicine Service (info when first dispensed)
Describe enhanced/locally commissioned services
- Optional
- Paid for each patient interaction
- Out of hours, palliative care services, services to schools
What does PMR stand for?
Patient medication record
What 4 things must be included in a PMR?
- Supply
- Clinical interventions
- Owings
- Referrals
List the 4 extra services that pharmacies must provide to supplement the requirements of the NHS contract (with no NHS payment)
- Prescription collection service
- Delivery service
- Compliance aids (e.g.monitored dosage systems, MDS)
- Care home services
What are repeat prescriptions?
- No need to see GP each month
- Patients can use the repeat request form to reorder medication
- Can also use surgery websites/email/fax to reorder
What is the prescription collection service?
- Pharmacy collects prescription from GP so patient doesn’t have to drop it in
- They are called when prescription is ready
What is the keep repeat service?
- Pharmacy keeps the repeat form and patients phone/email/call in to order medication
- Pharmacy orders medication from GP surgery and collects prescription
What is the managed repeat service?
Pharmacy orders items and collects prescription for the patient
What are compliance aids?
- 7 day packs
- Each day has time sections
- Tablets/capsules are put in appropriate blister
- Examples = dossette boxes, NOMAD, Medisure
- Pharmacist must be satisfied that patient can use the device safely
What are care home services?
- Medicines for residents of care homes packed into individual blister packs
- Colour co-ordinated for different times of day
- Easier and safer for care home staff
What is repeat dispensing?
Up to 12 months of prescriptions are issued at once so the patient doesn’t need to return to the GP Only for patients on stable medication - pharmacists’s responsibility to ensure suitability Formatted for EPS2
What does RA stand for?
Repeatable authorisation form
What is an RA form?
- Only 1
- Signed
- Not to be dispensed
- Number of repeats required
What does RD stand for?
Repeat dispensing batch prescription