InnovatIon & Change In pharmaCy praCtICe
GILLIAN HARRINGTON
Boots UK, Portree In 2012, NHS Highland secured funding from Macmillan Cancer Support to explore a new service delivery model for the rural Skye, Kyle & Lochalsh population. The project would pilot the establishment of a full-time Macmillan Rural Palliative Care Pharmacist Practitioner (MRPP) located in the area. The project is demonstrative, informing national policy, and will have direct relevance to the new proposal on the delivery of pharmacy services within NHS Scotland, ‘Prescription for Excellence’. This project has been set up to understand how community pharmacists can work to become more accepted as members of the multi-disciplinary team looking after terminally ill patients and support both fellow professionals and patients. As the Macmillan Palliative Care Community Pharmacist, Gillian provides high quality pharmaceutical care to all patients with a life limiting illness.
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GILLIAN HUNTER
Boots UK, Irvine In addition to patients diagnosed with cancer in Ayrshire and Arran each year, there are a significant number of people currently living with cancer in the local population. Transforming Care After Treatment was introduced to improve how care is managed for patients at the end of their treatment. As part of this programme, the team at NHS Ayrshire & Arran, Macmillan Cancer Support, Boots UK and the voluntary sector set up a new information drop-in service within the Boots Store in Ayr. It was felt that Irvine was an ideal location in which to offer a second hub. This is a significant innovation in Irvine because it offers patients and their families a non-clinical environment comprising access to a pharmacy and beauty team alongside Macmillan staff and volunteers to provide people affected by cancer the space and time to express and discuss concerns.
MACMILLAN PHARMACY SERVICE TEAM
MacMillan Pharmacy Service The Macmillan Pharmacy Service, the first of its kind in the UK, is a new and innovative model of care that was conceptualised to support the advancement of PC clinical services from community pharmacy. Its services key ambitions are to help patients live and die well at home by improving the standard and availability of PC services in the community to meet both the needs and wishes of patients and support the Scottish Governments plans to shift the balance of care from hospital to community. Feedback from service users, and patients and carers, has demonstrated that the novel initiatives have helped to drive changes in community pharmacy practice and improve the standard of PC delivered from community pharmacies. The service has concentrated on a number of novel initiatives, including the development of a PC resources folder for community pharmacy.
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