NEWS
NEWS IN BRIEF CPS COUNCIL MEETING
The CPS Council met on Wednesday the 11th of November in the second of the biannual meetings.
With so many issues facing community Pharmacy in Scotland the agenda was packed. The forum for CPS members positively inputted to ensure a wider voice from the Pharmacy network was heard. This voice will support and inform strategic engagement of the organisation in the coming months alongside the CPS Board.
Issues such as Prescription for Excellence, the upcoming financial negotiations for 16/17, Pharmacy involvement with the OOH review, the Scottish Patient Safety Programme (led by Andrea Smith from the SPSP), Health and Social Care Integration and the CPS Manifesto were all discussed.
Amendments to the Constitution There were amendments to the Constitution of the local Health Board committees of the organisation. The local committees will now be referred to as ‘Community Pharmacy insert Health Board area’ and for the first time Associate Members of the organisation will be given the opportunity to be involved formally with the local committees. The approved Council amendment will now allow the process for this involvement to be worked through in the coming months to coincide with the new CPS elections to be held in 2016.
Office restructure Internally within the organisation the Council were also informed of the Board approved restructure of the office. From the 1st December 2015 Matt Barclay will move to Director of Operations below the current CEO, Harry McQuillan. Mark Feeney will become Head of Policy and Development with recruitment for a new Policy and Development Pharmacist underway and Michael Oswald (current Pharmacy Services Supervisor) will become the Head of the Pharmacy Services department in the office.
50 - SCOTTISH PHARMACIST Pharmacy’s under-utilised role
in preventative services Community Pharmacy has given their response to the Scottish Parliament’s Finance Committee’s call for evidence on prevention. Despite support for preventative services across all parties, the Committee has noted that public sector reform has been ‘extremely’ slow.
It was interested in hearing views on the progress being made in reforming Scotland’s public services and delivering the decisive shift towards prevention.
RPS in Scotland believes that there is an underuse of the resources available within the pharmacy profession in contributing to the public health prevention agenda. Their submission provides further detail and background regarding current issues affecting preventative services in a pharmacy setting.
They have made five key recommendations for committee members to consider:
• Recognition that in the transformation of primary care, there must be pharmacist representation on community planning partnerships and
health and social care partnerships. • Pharmaceutical public health should be an integral part of primary care using analysis of available data which allows interventions to be targeted at areas of highest need as part of a focused health and social care integrated approach. • Pharmaceutical Service Care Plans need to be improved and become recognised working documents to identify gaps in services. • One single patient health record where all essential information is stored and all registered health and social care professionals involved in the patient journey to have appropriate access to the patient health record with the patient or their designated carer’s explicit consent. • Changes in business models are required, freeing up pharmacists time to provide the quality pharmaceutical care required to prevent drug related
events with increased cross sector working and better communication between both systems and personnel.
Practice and Policy Lead, Aileen Bryson MRPharmS, commented, “We want the Finance committee to have a clear understanding of the important, yet under-utilised, role that pharmacists play in delivering preventative services.
“Pharmacists’ unique expertise in medicines is integral to helping patients manage long term conditions and make informed decisions about their health, improving patient safety and public health outcomes. The pharmacy team across community, hospital and GP practices must have input into emerging primary care hubs to ensure that their skills are fully utilised to improve the health of people in Scotland.”
Wellbeing and student support services success
1891 individual acts of support were delivered by Pharmacist Support – the profession’s independent charity - to Pharmacists, former Pharmacists, trainees and MPharm students in 2014.
This was a 20% increase on the previous year’s figure and included over 730 enquiries, 249 calls from the Listening Friend volunteers to those dealing with a range of stressful situations, the provision of financial assistance to 191 individuals experiencing hardship, 211 referrals to specialist advisers at the CAB for debt, benefits and employment advice and support for 26 individuals with dependency issues via the Health Support Programme.
Following the success of the bursary pilot, the scheme has been rolled out across the country for the 2014/15 academic year with 20 Universities
participating. The bursary makes awards to students who demonstrate financial hardship, outstanding and exceptional qualities to overcome an ongoing adversity, sound academic performance and who are expected by their School of Pharmacy to make a positive contribution to Pharmacy in Scotland and the rest of Great Britain.
Commenting on the year’s activities, Chief Executive, Diane Leicester- Hallam, said, “Demand for the charity’s services continues to grow year on year. We have seen a consistent annual increase in service use and this has led to the amount of support we provide doubling in the past five years. In order for us to sustain this level of activity it is crucial that we secure funds from those in the profession.”
The Pharmacist Support 2014
Pharmacist Support Chief Executive, Diane Leicester-Hallam
annual review is presented as a series of digital slides and is accompanied by a short printed booklet. To view the digital slides visit http://annualreview2014.
pharmacistsupport.org
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