Services Database Supervised Consumption Service (Warwickshire)
Service ID
108458
Description
Aims and intended service outcomes
- Drug and alcohol treatment services and community pharmacies can work together to enhance the treatment and care experience for people who are prescribed supervised consumption of MAT.
- The supervised consumption service aims to improve care delivery and treatment outcomes by:
- Supporting people to take their medication as prescribed
- Reducing the risk of drug-related harm
- Sharing valuable data with prescribing services to allow them to intervene at critical times during the treatment journey
- Providing the service user with regular contact with a healthcare professional
Location of service
Arden LPC
Commissioner
Local Authority (LA)
Method of commissioning
Source of funding
Service type
Supervised administration
Other organisations involved
Dates
Start date:
End date:
Status
Ongoing
Training
Required Training
- Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians providing the service will complete the CPPE ‘Declaration of Competence (DoC) for Supervised Consumption of Prescribed Medicines’, and consent for this to be shared with Refresher training to be undertaken in line with the requirement to update DoC every 2 years.
- Training must be undertaken by all staff members who will be delivering the service (including locum pharmacy staff). Staff must be aware and competent to work under this SLA.
- A three-month grace period is allowed for new staff members to complete the required training avoiding disruption to service delivery.
- The local Change Grow Live service will provide update training, suitable for all members of the pharmacy team, on a quarterly basis. This may be delivered as a combination of face-to-face and online events (which will be made available on demand, where possible).
- Training will be delivered on appropriate topics, in order to reinforce knowledge and skills and identify any gaps or additional training needs; alongside sharing information on incidents, resolving queries, and exploring ideas for improvements to the service.
- Attendance at the annual training event is recommended as part of service delivery. The Contractor/Pharmacist attending the training must cascade any changes to service delivery must then be cascaded to all pharmacy staff involved in delivering the supervised consumption service.
