PM4B Law and Ethics Update Flashcards
The community pharmacy contractual framework 2019/20 to 2023/4
- a new NHS community pharmacist consultation service
- a new pharmacy quality scheme
- change in status of MURs
- Change in Established Payments
- Essential requirement for community pharmacy contractors to be level 1 HLP
CPCF
- Local
- Advanced
- Essential
Advanced Services
1) NMS
2) BP service
3) Appliance use review
4) Stroma Appliance Customisation
5) Flu Vaccination Service
6) Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS)
7) Hep C testing
8) Smoking Cessation Service
Locally Commissioned Services
- Minor ailments service
- Care home service
- Needle and Syringe exchange
- Monitored dosage systems
- Supervised consumption
- Sexual Health Screening
- Alcohol screening and brief interventions
- Weight management
- Falls Reduction
- Independent and supplementary prescribing
Hep C Testing
- Community pharmacy hepatitis C antibody testing service
- Focused on provision of point of care testing for hep C antibodies to persons who inject drugs (PWID)
Who is eligible for Hep C testing?
- PWID
- > 18
- Not engaged in community drug and alcohol treatment service
Pre-test discussion with PWID
- Before test, pharmacist or technician have pre-test discussion with PWID
- After discussion, PWID must give consent; can be gained verbally
What happens if an individual tests positive for Hep C
- Where people test positive, will be sent for a confirmatory test and treatment
Community pharmacy consultation service
- Where patients are referred into community pharmacy. Pharmacies will take referrals from NHS 111 telephone or online service, general practice for minor illness and urgent med supply
what happens if there is no referral on CPCS IT system and you are contacted by the patient?
- Check patient is at correct pharmacy
- Check NHS email
- Contact NHS 111 providers health professionals number or GP.
- Confirm patients NHS number and GP with NHS 111 call handler or GP surgery and ask for them to re-send the referral
Can consultations be done by telephone?
Yes, pharmacists can provide consultation over phone unless there is a clinical need to see the patient
Advanced services: Changes to consent
- no longer contractual requirement that written consent is given for flu vaccination, NMS, and AUR
- instead verbal consent can be made with written record of service
Further changes in CPCF
- new NMR Service to ensure changes in med made in secondary care are implemented when patients discharged back into the community = discharge med service
- considering expansion of NMS
- new service to improve palliative care meds
Serious Shortage protocol (SSP)
- In event of serious shortage
- Legislation which enables protocols to allow community pharmacies to dispense against specific protocol instead of an Rx without going back to prescriber first
- Pharmacist must conduct SSP with their professional judgement, and suggest an alternative that is reasonable and appropriate for patient
- May supply alternative only specified in SSP, provided that pt agrees with alternative SSP supply
- Dispensed SSP must have label that show that supply has been made in accordance with SSP and identify SSP
- SSP protocol endorsed on Rx
Types of SSP
- An alternative quantity
- An alternative formulation
- Alternative strength
- Generic equivalent
- Therapeutic equivalent
IN LINE WITH PROTOCOL GUIDELINES