Services Database Community Pharmacy supply of pulse oximeters (BNSSG)

Aims and Intended Service Outcomes

• To support services providing care for patients with coronavirus.
• To ensure that patients diagnosed with coronavirus are provided with a pulse oximeter to help with identifying patients at risk of deterioration and early detection of silent hypoxia.
• To improve access to pulse oximeters by making then readily available at community
  pharmacy for patients diagnosed with coronavirus referred from Sirona Care and Health Covid Virtual Ward.
• Monitoring of blood oxygen levels will be completed away from the pharmacy. The
  pharmacy will not be involved in the generation or communication of results. Pharmacy
  teams will not be required to provide any instructions or support the communication of the results or next steps to the person/carer.