CPNI EVENT
place between the community pharmacists and local groups in one year.
During this time frame, 62 projects were funded, equating to 1024 sessions with 1662 core participants. Mary catalogued that community pharmacists delivered 786 group - and 821 tailored - one-to-one support sessions, resulting in a positive impact on participants with 70% making healthy changes to the way they live, 81% understood how to improve their health and 84% knew more about health and local health services.
The programme also had a positive long-term impact on the social and economic aspects of the participants lives, as with their improved confidence and skills set, 44 people started volunteering and a further 4 individuals secured employment.
Projects included issues such as: chronic health, pain management, lifestyle, sexual health, alcohol and drugs, as well as wider social issues such as isolation, relationships and debt.
The topic ‘New Models of Care’ was delivered by Raymond Anderson, community pharmacist and Clinical Lead Pharmacist with Craigavon and Banbridge ICP. During his presentation entitled ‘Managing Long-Term Conditions in the Pharmacy’. Raymond talked about a pilot he had carried out to establish and prove the concept that patients with long-term conditions can be effectively and safely managed by a pharmacist independent prescriber from a community pharmacy.
In this case it was to review hypertension and asthma in the community pharmacy setting and through his presentation Mr Anderson
Providing the patient perspective, Paddy McErlean
Colin Harrison, community
pharmacist with Fearghal
McKinney MLA
demonstrated that this new model of care had been met favourably with both his local GP practice and those patients who received a consultation at the community pharmacy.
The last theme of the evening was ‘Community Pharmacy Innovations’ and this began with a closer look at an Out-of-hours Emergency Supply Pilot. Patient requests for routine repeat
medicines out-of-hours is a major issue with up to 50% of out-of-hours contacts and also visits to the Emergency Department being reported.
This creates unnecessary workload and increases pressure on overstretched emergency care services as well as mounting medicines wastage. To try and combat this, an Emergency Supply Service Pilot will operate for
six months in the Northern LCG area. James McCaughan, Community Pharmacist from Ballycastle provided an overview of the pilot which will be available during out-of-hours periods, allowing patients to access an urgent supply of their regular prescription medicines from their community pharmacy.
The ‘Focus on Innovation’ theme continued with a presentation on an Integrated Discharge Support Service Pilot given by Professor Mike Scott, Director of the Medicines Optimisation Centre (MOIC).
During the course of the presentation, Professor Scott looked at the reasons why we need medicines optimisation, outlined the Medicines Optimisation Quality Framework and highlighted the work of the Medicines Optimisation Innovation Centre (MOIC).
*Presentations are available to view within the members section of CPNI’s website:
www.communitypharmacyni.co.uk
If you would like a copy of the Dispensing Health booklet please email
info@communitypharmacyni.co.uk or call 028 9069 0444 call 028 9069 0444
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