Integrated care clinical Pharmacist GSTT@home service

"The ICCPs have made a significant impact in the overall quality of care that the GSTT @home service patients have received, and have also had a positive effect on the overall medicines optimisation of the service in general."

Integrated care clinical Pharmacist GSTT@home service
Guys & St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust (Community Health Services) NHS Specialist Pharmacy services

NICE Shared Learning examples
September 2015

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Community Pharmacy - Helping provide better quality and resilient urgent care

"This document takes examples of innovative practice from around the country and makes the tools available to help others to adopt these services to meet local need or help to manage demand. We encourage Service Resilience Groups and local commissioners to work together to make best use of community pharmacy locally."

Community Pharmacy - Helping provide better quality and resilient urgent care 
NHS England
November 2014

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Developing pharmacy’s contribution to public health

"The challenge is to ensure that commissioners, both national and local, understand fully the contribution pharmacy can, and now is, making to health and wellbeing. Investment will be required, through a combination of pump priming, cascade funding, commissioning budgets, and/or local procurement. But the potential health dividends and financial savings far outweigh the investment costs." 

Developing pharmacy’s contribution to public health: a progress report from the Pharmacy and Public Health Forum
Public Health England
June 2014 

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Health on the high street

"This paper discusses how best public health services might be commissioned from community pharmacy within the new system architecture."

Health on the high street: rethinking the role of community pharmacy
NHS Confederation
October 2013

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