Services Database Supervised Self administration oral Opioid Substitution Therapy (Buckinghamshire)

1.1 Aims

To provide pharmacist supervision of consumption of prescribed medications ensuring service users compliance with their agreed treatment plan by:

· Offering a safe, non-judgemental, safe, service user centred and confidential service.

· Dispensing prescribed medication in specified instalments.

· Ensuring each supervised dose is correctly administered to the service user for whom it was intended. (Doses may be dispensed for the service user to take away to cover days when the pharmacy is closed).

· To provide service users with regular contact with healthcare professionals and to help them access further advice or assistance (It is good practice to record thus intervention on the patients PMR).

· The pharmacy will provide a consultation area that is fit for purpose for administering oral Opioid Substitution Therapy (OST) to clients under supervision and meets the following,

o General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) Standards for Registered Premises.

o Clearly Designated for confidential consultations.

o Separate from General Public areas of the Premises.

o It must be a room where both the service user receiving services and the pharmacist providing those services are able to sit down together and talk at normal speaking volumes without being overheard by any other person.

· The prescriber should discuss this with the service user when selecting a pharmacy. In agreement with the pharmacist, the service user may choose not to consume their supervised medication in the consultation area but in another area of the pharmacy that is fit for purpose. In all circumstances, the pharmacy must have a fit for purpose consultation area.