Services Database Think Pharmacy Emergency Supply Service (Cheshire East, Cheshire South & Vale Royal Areas)
Service ID
43871
Description
The Think Pharmacy Emergency Supply Service allows the emergency supply of a patient’s medicine at NHS expense in order to reduce the number of patients contacting urgent and emergency care providers. This may include both prescription-only and other medicines usually obtained on prescription by the patient from their GP. The emergency supply provisions permit the supply of sufficient quantities of most prescription only medicines for up to 30 days treatment, although smaller amounts may be appropriate.
This service has now finished; it was commissioned as a winter systems resilience project, planned to finish at the end of March 2015 but extended throughout April 2015 to ensure coverage over the Easter Bank holiday weekend.
Location of service
Cheshire & Wirral LPC
Commissioner
Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG)
Method of commissioning
Source of funding
Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG)
Service type
Emergency supply NHS service
Other organisations involved
Dates
Start date: 01/11/2014
End date: 30/04/2015
Status
Completed
Training
The pharmacy contractor has a duty to ensure that pharmacists and pharmacy support staff involved in the provision of the service have relevant knowledge and are appropriately trained in the operation of the service.
Comments
This service is available in the Cheshire East, Cheshire South and Vale Royal areas only.