New contract to see pharmacists giving post-discharge medicines advice ... to support patients with medication when they are discharged from hospital, as part of a new digital referral service announced under the new pharmacy contract. This essential service, called the Discharge Medicines Service (DMS), will come into force in July. It was announced yesterday (23 February) as part of a raft of changes to the community pharmacy contractual framework. These changes include a new hepatitis C ... Date: 23-02-2020 Categories: • Latest News • News • Services

Pharmacy contract: all you need to know about the changes ... , notably the total funding envelope of almost £13bn, which was protected until 2023/24. The funding for 2020/21 will remain at £2.592bn. Changes to the contract are summarised as follows: New Discharge Medicines Service (from July 2020) – pharmacists will help patients with advice and information about new medicines and prescription changes when they’re discharged from hospital, via a digital referral from the hospi ... Date: 24-02-2020 Categories: • Latest News • News

Pharmacy contract: the sector reacts ... , alterations to some funding streams and changes to terms of service. One major change will include a new essential service that will involve pharmacists supporting patients with the new NHS Discharge Medicines Service (DMS) from hospital, as well as a hepatitis C testing service. The updates to the community pharmacy contractual framework (CPCF) were announced on Sunday (23 February), in a joint letter by the P ... Date: 25-02-2020 Categories: • Latest News • News

Keith Ridge predicts a more ‘clinical future’ for pharmacy post Covid-19 ... roduce them across the country as soon as possible.’ Education and training developments GP referral into the Community Pharmacist Consultation Service is also due to start this autumn, while a Discharge Medicines Service will commence in the new year, Dr Ridge said. He also spoke of developments around the accelerated reform of initial education and training for the MPharm and pre-registration, which are designed ... Date: 17-09-2020 Categories: • Covid-19 • Latest News • News

Pharmacies must ensure patients have ‘reasonable’ access to remote services ... to the terms of service is that owing slips may be distributed electronically, as well as a hard copy form, PSNC said. The other new regulations, agreed as part of the five-year CPCF, include the Discharge Medicines Service, which is a new essential service due to start from 1 January 2021. The new regulations follow changes to the Human Medicines Regulations 2012 introduced last week (16 October), which allow pharma ... Date: 22-10-2020 Categories: • News

Discharge Medicines Service: 'Pharmacists are in the ideal position to spot and sort an error' David Broome, director at Stancliffe Pharmacy in Leeds, talks to Saša Jankovi? about helping patients understand their medicines after discharge. Service type: Discharge Medicines Service. Name and location of pharmacy: Stancliffe Pharmacy, Leeds. Name of pharmacist(s): David and Jackie Broome. Why did you start offering this service? We have had the Connect With ... Date: 29-03-2021 Categories: • Healthy living

'Whatever happened to the promise of more clinical services?' ... and increased revenue can be substantial and rewarding. From my experience, patients are pleased that a healthcare professional calls them to check how they are getting on with a new medicine. Discharge Medicines Service The Discharge Medicines Service (DMS) became a new Essential service within the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework (CPCF) on 15 February 2021. From 15 February 2021, NHS Trusts were able ... Date: 27-05-2021 Categories: • Opinion

APPG launches inquiry into the future of pharmacy sector post-Covid ... armacy settings - such as an increased range of vaccinations.  They will also be looking into the current state of newer services such as Community Pharmacist Consultation Services (CPCS) and Discharge Medicines Service (DMS).  The group has said respondents can also help by providing information on how they believe pharmacy can be better integrated into NHS care pathways.   Questions will also be asked a ... Date: 13-09-2021 Categories: • News

Monitored dosage system: 'We get patients asking for MDS all the time' ... ow we have done this. And when a patient is admitted to hospital and then comes out they are supplied with a week’s worth of medicines and we can continue to supply after that, which can fit with the Discharge Medicines Service (DMS). How have patients responded to the service? They get on with it really well and it takes a lot of pressure off families, especially if their family don't live with them. Patient ... Date: 06-12-2021 Categories: • Long-term conditions

What a year it's been: but what's next for pharmacy? ... t have low uptakes or hard to reach communities. Alongside the pandemic-related additional workload, we have seen expansion of our Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework workload: Launch of a Discharge Medicines ServiceGP Community Pharmacist Consultation service roll-out – this is patchy at present, but it is expanding quicklyHypertension case finding serviceIncreased NMS eligibility. Although extra services are ... Date: 15-12-2021 Categories: • Views

Green pharmacy: should we forget about recycling for now? ... can visit their local pharmacy and get seen by a pharmacist through the community pharmacy consultation service. That reduces their carbon footprint from travelling.'   She also refers to the Discharge Medicines Service as another green service.  ‘If we can reduce polypharmacy that will also help the environment in a big way,' she says.   This month, a study found that switching an asthma patient from ... Date: 25-02-2022 Categories: • News

The pharmacy contract is broken – what do we do now? ... We have had money top-sliced, only to be re-packaged as new exciting clinical services. However, these services are now being controlled by other organisations and professionals. So, accessing the Discharge Medicines Service and the GP Community Pharmacist Consultation Service is hardly a radical change to our sector. We can’t drive the change within our pharmacies, and instead, it is being drip fed to us. The contrac ... Date: 30-09-2022 Categories: • Opinion

New NHS action plan to deprescribe opioids and potentially addictive medicines ... other conditions such as depression. It also reminds NHS trusts that they can refer patients newly started on opioids and other medicines associated with dependence and withdrawal symptoms to the Discharge Medicines Service (DMS) or the New Medicines Service (NMS) in community pharmacy. Over the past four years, pharmacists and GPs have helped cut opioid prescriptions in England by 450,000, according to the latest da ... Date: 02-03-2023 Categories: • News

‘The devil’s in the detail’: What will England’s national Pharmacy First service mean locally? ... CB) supports general practices and pharmacies to deliver the Community Pharmacy Consultation Service (CPCS) and the Hypertension Case-Finding Service, as well as funding infrastructure to support the Discharge Medicines Service (DMS) alongside a DMS working group. ‘That local support becomes the foundation of the delivery of service – whether it's locally or nationally commissioned, that additional resource has to be the ... Date: 23-05-2023 Categories: • Analysis • News

Analysis: Has the government delivered on its pharmacy commitments? ... r no reason’ through CPCS, and suggested that a minor ailments service, funded through community pharmacy, could enable access to over the counter medication without the need for a GP appointment. Discharge Medicines Service: requires improvement In 2020, the government announced a new essential service that pharmacies must deliver: to support patients with medications when they left hospital, under the discharge med ... Date: 25-07-2023 Categories: • Analysis • Community • News

Pharmacy First: Are the floodgates about to open? ... wo medical centres, and already takes GP referrals through the Community Pharmacy Consultation Scheme (CPCS) in addition to running a private clinic, independent prescribing, travel vaccinations, the Discharge Medicines Service, hypertension screening, chlamydia screening and treatments. He says his sole consultation room ‘is in constant demand’ from the two pharmacists managing these services. ‘We are going to have t ... Date: 24-01-2024 Categories: • Analysis • Community • Ear nose and throat • News • Pharmacy First

Call to ‘investigate’ placing ARRS roles in pharmacies ‘instead of GP practices’ ... In particular, supporting effective collaboration between community pharmacy and hospital teams could help reduce patient harm and produce cost savings through more effective implementation of the Discharge Medicines Service (DMS), the PPP suggested. And NHS England medicines policies and contractual frameworks should ‘prioritise patient outcomes over cost savings’, the report recommended. Commenting on the report, ... Date: 27-06-2024 Categories: • Community • In Practice • News

Community pharmacy repeat prescription review service ‘should be explored’ ... and RCGP also highlighted the need to 'expedite digital solutions' that would allow hospital discharge medicines information to link into the patient record. And they noted that utilisation of the Discharge Medicines Service (DMS) in England was 'currently not fully optimised'. 'The DMS enables hospitals to digitally share information about medication changes with the patient’s usual community pharmacy and has been sh ... Date: 10-10-2024 Categories: • Community • In Practice • News