AWARD WINNER
INNOVATION in advancing clinical care in pharmacy
James Allan, Director of SA in partnership with IPS Specials with Pauline Brown and Catherine McCusker
Pharmacist Facilitators, won the Inno- vation & Change in Pharmacy Practice Award at the recent Scottish Pharmacy Awards owing to its unique look into the role of palliative care pharmacy in the community.
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The Macmillan Pharmacy Service, the fi rst of its kind in the UK, is a new and innovative model of care that was conceptualised to support the ad- vancement of pharmacy palliative care (PC) clinical services from community pharmacy.
The 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
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Macmillan Cancer Support funded initiative which witnessed the establish- ment of four Macmillan
meet both the needs and wishes of patients and support the Scottish Gov- ernments plans to shift the balance of care from hospital to community.
Feedback from service users, and patients and carers, has demonstrated that these novel initiatives have helped to drive changes in community pharmacy practice and improve the standard of PC delivered from com- munity pharmacies.
In 2009, Macmillan Cancer Support funded the project which piloted the establishment of four Macmillan Phar- macist Facilitators, the fi rst of their kind in the UK.
The Macmillan Pharmacist Facilita- tors were aligned to four community health care partnerships (CH(C)Ps) in Greater Glasgow and Clyde (GG&C)
from 2009-2013 to explore a new and innovative service delivery model for community pharmacy palliative care (PC) services. The overarching aim of the Macmillan Pharmacist Facilitator project was to improve PC services in the community to enable patients to live and die well at home by:
Developing community pharmacy capacity to effectively, effi ciently and safely support the increasing PC needs of those with cancer and life-limiting illness in local communities
Improve the provision and co-ordina- tion of services from all community pharmacies irrespective of whether they provided a locally enhanced PC service, ensuring opportunities were developed for training and peer sup- port
Provide quality information to support pharmacy practice as well as improve the quality, safety and cost-effective- ness of prescribing
The University of Strathclyde was commissioned to evaluate the project and a detailed analysis of community pharmacy clinical practice in support of PC was undertaken.
This analysis informed the construc- tion of an evidence-based service delivery and capacity planning model for community pharmacy PC services, an area where there was no published work. The model focused on aligning with policy frameworks in community pharmacy to maximise the use of pharmacists’ professional competence in planning and delivering clinical services.
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