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Pharmacy Training Event
17th June 2014
Claire Walters Services Manager SoT Routes to Recovery
Stuart Fisher Clinical Co-Ordinator
Welcome!!
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Here to improve relationships, share knowledge and best
practice
Regular event going forward
Why Are We Here?
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You are an important ‘piece of the puzzle’ and our eyes and ears
in managing the risks that our SU present with
We need to make sure that you now what information we need,
when we need it and why we need it
We need to be clear about what you need from us
We all need to know the best ways to communicate with each
other in order to manage risk and support decision making
Some things work well some don’t – from all sides we could be
better
Missed Pick Ups….
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1st Missed Pick Up
– Try and contact SU are they OK??
2nd Missed Pick Up
– Outreach team contacted, Visit at Home
3rd Missed pick up
– Police called safe and well
– PX Stopped. Need to see Dr before restart
– OD risk higher
Missed Pick Ups and SPOC
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1st Missed Pick Up
– Try and contact SU are they OK??
– Call the SPOC leave a message
2nd Missed Pick Up
– Outreach team contacted, Visit at Home
– Call SPOC and leave a message
3rd Missed pick up
– Police called safe and well
– PX Stopped. Need to see Dr before restart
– OD risk higher
– Call SPOC and leave a message – Don’t dispense again
until new prescription is issued
SPOC Phone
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For information giving only.
All hubs info is on the back of prescription. If you need to speak
to someone call that number – they will be able to advise
What to do with Missed Pick Ups
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One Day Missed
– If Titration script don’t dispense and urgent Red call to hub
– If not call SPOC and continue dispensing
Two Days Missed
– Call SPOC and continue to dispense
Three Days Missed
– DO NOT DISPENSE
– Call SPOC
– Prescription is cancelled. Only dispense again after new
prescription is issued
What we can help with…
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Violent and aggressive SU’s
Training for new staff
Advice and guidance on complex cases
Alerts and Info on local trends
Supervised Consumption
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One of the most important things you do
Ensure that SU’s are getting what is prescribed and reduces illicit
drug availability
Check and Balance
Concerns of missed pick ups for weekly dispense
Supervised Consumption
Agreement
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Highlighted text is why we have chosen to have this event today
We have slightly changed the wording to fit in with the SPOC
process and behaviour expectations of our service users
Look through the agreement
Supervised Consumption
Assessment
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The tool we use to help determine who is who isn’t on
supervised consumption
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Things we consider
– Safeguarding
– Alcohol Use
– Drug use ‘on top’
– Engagement with services
– Continual missed doses
– Intelligence that full doses arn’t being taken
Prescriber Q and A
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Any questions for Dr Ian Coffey?
LIN
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We work closely with the LIN liaising with them around errors,
issues and security concerns that we have
We report
– prescriptions not dispensed by the correct pharmacy
– Wrong amounts dispensed
– Dispensing not in accordance with how prescribed
– Lost prescriptions
They were instrumental in, (and paying for!), tonights event in an
attempt to reduce the amount of incidents that are reported
Important work in reducing the amount of illicit prescribed
substances that are on the streets of Stoke on Trent.
Case Study
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What could have happened if we don’t communicate….
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SU A comes in severely intoxicated. He is on weekly dispense
75ml methadone a day.
Whats wrong with this picture?
What are the dangers here?
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Case Study
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SU is on daily supervised buprenorphine. They are being
increasinly inpatient for having to wait for it to disolve….
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What happens next?
What could be happening?
What part can we play in this?
Case Study
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You have noticed for the past 4 days a SU has come in with
small children.
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What happens next?
Case Study
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Service User comes in and asks you to accept a prescription that
hasn’t got your stamp on it
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What happens next?
What could be the consequences
Safeguarding… We Need You
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Regular contact with our service users
Might see things that haven't been disclosed
Patterns of behavior, including people that they are regularly with
General welfare of the child if they are with them
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Like anything we are only as good as the info we are told.
Good way of making sure everything adds up
Ideas For Next Time…
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What would you like support in
Ideas for Discussion
Case studies for peer support
Any Questions?
Thank You and Goodnight!