Services Database BSW PGDs

Aims and Intended Service Outcomes

• To improve access and choice for people with some minor ailments normally requiring an FP10 prescription.
• Increase the scope of minor illness that community pharmacists can treat.
• Make use of the 7 day and out of hours’ services provided by some community pharmacies.
• Ensure that patients are treated to the same clinical pathway in a consistent way regardless of which healthcare professional the patient consults with across Bath, Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW) ICB.
• Ensure that patients have a positive experience of care in a community pharmacy setting and can be treated in a single episode of care.
• Move care closer to home for patients
• Reduce pressure on other parts of the healthcare system
• Reduce referrals to prescribing services purely because of OTC medicine licensing restrictions.