Pharmacy teams are working through their CPPE training and registering with their local National Health Service England Area Teams (NHS AT) or are they now Local Area teams (LAT)/Commissioning support units (CSU) and Health and Social case information centre (hscic).
Face to Face Training and Registration is taking place for Privacy Officers so that all the right boxes are ticked, allowing pharmacy to access, when appropriate, patient Summary Care Records.
Initially each pharmacy had to have one privacy officer. It now appears there is a need for at least two privacy officers. The reasoning for this is that the privacy officer, if clinical/operational cannot investigate their own ‘alerts’ once they have accesses the SCR.
Training attended so far is of good quality.
But a couple of questions were raised which we are investigating.
Does the pharmacy need to obtain consent from the patient for each episode of treatment?
Our understanding is yes. But the training intimated that if they are regular patients and have consented once there is no need to gain consent each time.
Can a care home manager act on behalf of the patient and gives consent for ALL the patients under their care?
The view given at the training is that the care home manager can give consent for patients under their care. Is this correct? We are investigating.
This is an excellent tool let’s use if professionally.
Written by Michael Spruzs