Keynote address - Community Pharmacy and General Practice Communication Event

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Keynote address -Community Pharmacy and General
Practice Communication Event

Fred Smith GP Freda Jones Pharmacist Filamina
Brown, GP Tutor
Educational solutions for the NHS pharmacy
workforce
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Content

• NHS agenda
• GP contract
• Community pharmacy contract
• Pharmacy White Paper 2008
• Local issues

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NHS agenda

• Our Health, Our Care, Our Say (2006)
• More convenience for patients
• Care Closer to Home
• Better prevention
• More support for people with long term conditions
• Tackling health inequalities

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NHS agenda

• Commissioning
• World Class commissioning
• Practice-based commissioning
• Changes to primary care estate
• Polyclinics / GP-led health centres
• Changes to pharmacy control of entry

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NHS agenda

• Darzi review (2008)
• Support for staying healthy
• Vascular risk assessment
• NHS Constitution
• Personal health budgets
• Independent quality standards

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GP contract (Apr 04)

• Changes to out of hours care responsibility
• Essential, advanced and enhanced tiers
• Quality and outcomes framework

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Pharmacy contract (Apr 05)

• Essential services
• Dispensing, repeat dispensing, signposting,
  public health
• Advanced services
• Medicine Use Reviews
• Enhanced services
• Stop smoking, EHC, Supervised administration,
  minor ailment service, flu vaccination, chlamydia
  screening and treatment

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Pharmacy White Paper (Apr 08)

• Recognised accessibility and widespread use of
  pharmacy, by both well and sick.
• Recognised that more use can be made of
  pharmacists skills
• Proposed increased role in
• Public health
• Long-term conditions
• Minor ailments

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Pharmacy White Paper (Apr 08)

• Healthy living centres
• Minor ailments service
• VRA programme
• Chlamydia screening
• Closer professional relationships
• Prioritising MURs

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Pharmacy White Paper (Apr 08)

• Improving repeat dispensing
• Support for new medicine for a LTC
• Access to contraception service
• Pharmacy care for patients with diabetes

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Local issues
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Local issues
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Why work together?

• Opportunity for GPs to take on more work from
  hospitals but capacity issues
• Joint services can play to respective strengths
• Ensure continuity of care for patients
• Pharmacists often see patients more frequently
  than GPs
• Signpost to each others services

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Summary

• NHS agenda
• GP contract
• Community pharmacy contract
• Pharmacy White Paper 2008
• Local issues