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NHS HealthChecks Pharmacy Local Enhanced Service

NHS HealthChecks Pharmacy Local Enhanced Service. Tony Dean, Chief Officer, Norfolk Local Pharmaceutical Committee. Training and Accreditation. 2 parts: Service Overview, Delivery, Practical Advice, Communication of Risk, Paperwork!, Resources etc.

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NHS HealthChecks Pharmacy Local Enhanced Service

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  1. NHS HealthChecksPharmacy Local Enhanced Service Tony Dean, Chief Officer, Norfolk Local Pharmaceutical Committee

  2. Training and Accreditation • 2 parts: • Service Overview, Delivery, Practical Advice, Communication of Risk, Paperwork!, Resources etc. Lead: Joanne Haws, Independent Nurse Consultant in Cardiovascular Disease

  3. Training and Accreditation 2) Near Patient Testing Equipment (Cardiocheck PA) Lead: Dan Carver, BHR Pharmaceuticals NB: Further cascade training within you organisation is permitted, subject to satisfactory competency- clinical lead responsibility.

  4. LES • 12 months (initially) • May later become more targeted (political influence), but pharmacy’s advantages remain. • MUST: Be proactive in client recruitment. Require approximately 70 clients to recoup investment. • CLEAR synergies with smoking cessation Level 2 provision- if you don’t already offer this too then….!

  5. Clinical Waste • PCT is/has arranged for those pharmacies confirmed as taking part to LPC by mid-August. • Needle Exchange bins not suitable as a solution. • Consider Hep B issue

  6. Before You Get Started • Practice on yourself, staff, friends or family- you get to draw blood legally. • Let your local GP surgeries know. • Get familiar with the paperwork, and plan when you should return forms etc. • Discuss and record lines of responsibility for clinical governance, infection control, equipment maintenance and QC etc.

  7. Support: You are NOT on your own! • PCT: leaflets, posters, lifestyle advice material, service promotion etc. • LPC: Practical Support, getting started: Lauren Dyble: LPC Service Facilitator Tel. 07527230929 Tony Dean: 07789406632 Email: norfolklpc@pharmacy-anglia.org

  8. Body Mass Index (BMI) Joanne!

  9. Blood Pressure Joanne! Validated Automatic Monitors http://www.bhsoc.org/blood_pressure_list.stm

  10. Physical Activity Level Joanne!

  11. Reporting Requirements • MONTHLY: Single page report form. V.quick and simple. Payment is based on this!!! Within 5 working days of month-end. • 6 MONTHLY: Summary with age/gender/ethnicity and risk level data. • AUDIT: PCT will arrange in due course. • REPORT TO: julie.fitt@norfolk.nhs.uk Public Health Directorate, Lakeside 400, Old Chapel Way, Broadland Business Park, Norwich, NR7 0WG

  12. Data Transfer • Copy of each Health Check Record to be sent to client’s GP. • In person- no issue. • By post: Data transfer recording sheet required IF MORE THAN 20 RECORDS TRANSFERRED AT ONCE.

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