Resources
NECS good practice guidance and tools for care homes
The NECS Vulnerable Adults Workstream Group has produced a suite of guidance documents and tools for use across all North East and Cumbria CCGs, based national standards, legislation and guidance.
NICE asthma guidance
There are important differences between new NICE recommendations on asthma treatment and current “standard practice” in the UK. For example, […]
NICE Reminder that antibiotics should not be used to treat the majority of sinus infections
NICE Guideline 79 strongly reminds us that antibiotics are very rarely needed for acute sinusitis – with a clear statement that […]
Help reduce repeat prescribing waste – Report via SIRMS
To make it easier to identify and investigate waste in the repeat prescription ordering process, we’ve added a specific field with a yes/no dropdown to SIRMS that will highlight where waste has occurred in repeat prescribing systems.
This will help us to run reports and investigate incidents relating to waste. We’ll look at all the incidents and where necessary put steps in place to prevent this happening again.
New home oxygen order form, consent form and initial home oxygen mitigation forms
NHS England have recently introduced new forms for use when ordering home oxygen directly from the supplier via home oxygen order forms (HOOFs). It is recommended that patients are referred to the home oxygen assessment and review service (HOS-AR) service for initiation of home oxygen (there is no change to this process).
North East and North Cumbria Regional Self-Care Campaign
The CCGs in the North East and North Cumbria have agreed to work on a range of large scale initiatives to help tackle prescribing issues which are applicable to all areas. One of these initiatives is the promotion self-care for common conditions such as acute pain, hay fever and travel medication.
Resources are being distributed to all practices, pharmacies, walk-in centres and A&E departments and include posters and leaflets to help promote this initiative to patients. In addition to this there will be a social media campaign to reinforce these messages using Twitter and Facebook.
Self-Care and OTC Posters
Posters to support the regional self-care campaign are being distributed to all practices, pharmacies, walk-in centres and A&E departments to help promote this initiative to patients.
Copies of the posters can be downloaded from the NECS Medicines Optimisation website.
OneTouch Ultra and OneTouch Vita test strips – cessation of manufacture and supply
The supply and manufacturing, of non-ISO 15197:2015 certified OneTouch Ultra and OneTouch Vita test strips will cease in June 2017
We are aware that a number of patients in the NECS CCG areas have been prescribed these two products.
MicroGuide Antibiotics Guideline App Feedback
We are evaluating the MicroGuide Antibiotics App and need your feedback on how useful you find the app and anything […]