Development of a modular programme delivering clinical prioritisation skills for experienced Band 5/6 medicines management technicians in both an acute and mental health setting.

Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (WSHT) / Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Background

Local delivery of clinical pharmacy services in both WSHT and SPFT, is a well-established multidisciplinary approach divided between clinical pharmacists and medicines management technicians, with clinical assistant support.

Whilst well established and respected, medicines management roles are usually limited to drug history taking and referral to pharmacists for reconciliation and targeted counselling of high-risk medicines. Clinical prioritisation skills are essential for all professional pharmacy team members to enable targeted clinical pharmacy services to patients.
Drivers for change are twofold; increasingly complex patients with co-morbid health issues; and a need to release pharmacist time to directly influence prescribing choices and utilising their independent prescribing skills for safe prescribing and deprescribing initiatives.
The current ceiling in formal training for medicines management technician development available locally has limited advanced development of experienced technicians.

Project Aim

Development of a modular programme delivering clinical prioritisation skills for experienced Band 5/6 medicines management technicians in both an acute and mental health setting.

Project Objectives

Design a modular programme delivering targeted clinical prioritisation skills.

To include appropriate referral of patients via Transfer of Care around medicines Scheme (TCAM), to the patient’s nominated community pharmacy.

To deliver learning for a bespoke set of clinical prioritisation skills and test the programme with a small cohort of technicians in acute and mental health Trust.

Evaluate the modular programme developed.

Outputs

The following documents are outputs of the projects.

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Project Team

Name

Organisation

Role

Saffron Mawby

Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Accountable Officer

Sally Miles

Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Accountable Officer

Adam Radford

Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Project Lead