How Community Pharmacy supports local communities in Brighton and Hove East Sussex LPC

See one of these and you think Pharmacy. The dispensing service See one of these and you think Pharmacy! The dispensing service. But what else do we do? Working to a prescription pharmacists and their staff will provide you with your medicines labelled correctly following the directions of the prescriber Some patients require medicines specially packed to meet their needs e.g. 7 day packs to support them to take their medicines. Many pharmacies provide a free delivery service – The pharmacy funds this service they receive no money from the NHS for providing a delivery service

Core Pharmacy Services Dispensing Repeat Dispensing Support for self-care Signposting patients to other healthcare professionals Healthy Lifestyles service (Public health) Waste medication disposal Clinical governance

Advanced Services Medicines Use Review (MUR) and Prescription Intervention Service Appliance Use Review Stoma Appliance Customisation New Medicine Service (NMS) NHS Urgent Medicine Supply Advanced Service (NUMSAS) Flu Vaccination Service

Services provided by all Pharmacies Accepting patient’s waste medicines returned to the pharmacy and sending them for disposal One patient’s medicines returns!

Compliance Aids??? In general there is insufficient evidence to support the benefits of Medicines Compliance Aids (MCA) in improving medicines adherence in all patients. However, there is some evidence to indicate that MCA may be of value for a small number of patients who have been assessed as having practical problems in managing their medicines. Each patient’s needs must be assessed on an individual basis and any intervention must be tailored to the patient’s specific requirements.

The Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) If you get regular prescriptions, the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) may be able to save you time by avoiding unnecessary trips to your GP. EPS makes it possible for your prescriptions to be sent electronically to the pharmacy or dispenser of your choice. Choosing a pharmacy to process your EPS prescription is called nomination.  This means you'll no longer have to collect a paper repeat prescription from your GP practice – instead, you can go straight to the nominated pharmacy to pick up your medicines or medical appliances.

Repeat Dispensing/electronic Repeat Dispensing (eRD) Suitable for patients on regular stable medication Up to 12 months of prescriptions are authorised by the prescriber Under the repeat dispensing service pharmacy teams will: dispense repeat dispensing prescriptions issued by a GP; ensure that each repeat supply is required; and seek to ascertain that there is no reason why the patient should be referred back to their GP. Main benefit to patient/carer is that you don’t have to request the prescription form your Doctor each time

Local services provided by some pharmacies Commissioned by BHCC: Sexual Health Services Supply of Emergency Hormonal Contraception Supply of free condoms Provision of a chlamydia test and treatment. Services for substance misusers Supervised consumption ( on a daily basis) Needle and syringe exchange Stop smoking services and provision of nicotine replacement medicines Domiciliary Stop Smoking Service Healthy Living Pharmacies Level 2 – co-commissioned with Brighton and Hove CCG

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