Services Database Palliative Care Service
Service ID
109056
Description
The aim of the service is to support anticipatory prescribing and allow rapid access to medicines commonly prescribed in palliative care, to enable a greater percentage of patients to have a home death, rather than to be moved to an institution such as hospital.
By establishing a network of pharmacies that will routinely hold stock of the main End of Life medicines, carers and other health care professionals should not experience delays in obtaining these medicines for the patients that they are caring for.
Location of service
South Staffordshire LPC
Commissioner
Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG)
Method of commissioning
Source of funding
Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG)
Service type
On demand availability of specialist drugs (palliative care)
Other organisations involved
Dates
Start date: 01/04/2016
End date:
Status
Ongoing
Training
Not known.
