1. NHS-Private Partnership A response to Carter
Sumara Parvez- Head of Pharmacy- SWFT
Andrew Williams- Responsible Pharmacist- SWFTCS

2. Background
South Warwickshire NHS FT- set up its own Wholly Owned Subsidiary in 2011
The subsidiary is referred to as South Warwickshire Foundation Trust- Clinical Services (SWFT-CS)
In set an outpatient pharmacy service at Warwick site recruiting staff from retail
In commenced management of estates & second pharmacy- Stratford site

3. Previous service via outpatients
Dispensing of Out-patient prescriptions
M-F working to match clinic times
TTOs for 6 wards local to outpatient pharmacy
OTC and Pharmacy Medicines , Smoking Cessation , Shoe fitting

4. 2018 Carter Hospital Pharmacy Transformation plans produced
Review of “infrastructure activity”
Contract review for outpatient pharmacy service due
New Head of Pharmacy at SWFT
New Finance Director role at SWFT-CS

5. New Pharmacy service All TTOs via SWFTC- under new contract
Clinical screening via SWFT with dispensing at SWFT
Enabler-IT
Exemptions:
legal- VAT rules
Some community hospitals
Logistics
Phased Roll out
Near completion

6. Benefits Reduction in dispensing activity
outsourced approx.150 TTO items per day
Re-deployment of staff into patient facing roles from Dispensary

7. Benefits Help with stretch on ward based activity
increased our ward-based technician input by 2.8 WTE at B4 & 0.5 WTE at B5
pre-rollout- approx. 73% of in patient worked turned around within agreed time. This has increased to 96%
Critical meds/missed doses reduction?
anecdotal feedback that the wards generally like SWFTCS dispensing TTOs- due to locality and a simpler Controlled Drug supply

8. Future Plans
Increased ward presence to allow embedding into MDT- with focus on:
increased counselling
involvement in discharge process- release nursing time
Focus on one start of patient journey
Proactive not Reactive
Data collection using shared tracker system
TTO turnaround data is still not verifiable and being worked through