Services Database On Demand Availability of Palliative Care Medicines – Level 1 (Hastings & Rother CCG Area)

There are two levels to this service:
Level one
The pharmacy contractor will stock a range of palliative care medicines, specified by the CCG, and will make a commitment to ensure that users of this service have prompt access to these medicines at all times.
The pharmacist and other members of staff will provide information and advice to the user, carer and clinician. They may also refer to specialist centres, support groups or other health and social care professionals where appropriate.
Level two
The contractor will stock a locally agreed range of specialist medicines in level one of the service and pack them into a Just In Case (JIC) container with appropriate labelling and explanatory paperwork and make it available to the patient on receipt of a completed FP10 prescription and request form from the prescriber requesting a JIC Box.
The pharmacist and other members of staff will provide information and advice to the user, carer and clinician.
They may also refer to specialist centres, support groups or other health and social care professionals where appropriate

The pharmacy contractor should be able to demonstrate that pharmacists and staff involved in the provision of the service have undertaken CPD relevant to this service, for example, the CPPE training, Care of the terminally ill – communicating with patients open learning.