NPC launches new support service
Different therapy packages available from NPC Plus
Available now:
Management of common infections in primary care
Use of NSAIDS
Hypertension
Dyspesia
Available soon:
Asthma
Depression
Type 2 diabetes and obesity
Lipids |
Additional support for primary care trusts and other National Health
Service bodies is being offered by the National Prescribing Centre through
a new service, NPC Plus, from 29 September.
Based in Manchester, NPC Plus is designed to spread good prescribing
practices, and offers assistance with drug budgets and other management
issues, by providing packages and training to ensure that the NPC approach
reaches many more people in the NHS than its existing service can. NHS
organisations can commission , for example, packages that will enhance
health care professionals’ understanding of evidence-based prescribing
in different therapeutic areas. NPC Plus trainers will be on hand to
ensure the packages are implemented effectively through all levels in
the commissioning organisation.
Heidi Wright, assistant director NPC Plus, said: “These packages
are designed to provide solutions to some of the most pressing issues
around prescribing and medicines management in primary and secondary
care.”
She also explained that any revenue generated by the development and
use of the packages will be reinvested to enhance the NPC core services
and to develop further NPC Plus packages.
In addition to primary care trusts and other trusts showing interest
in the packages the NPC has also had expressions of interest from a number
of workforce development confederations and prisons, and is working with
the Prescribing Support Unit.
For further information contact Heidi Wright on 0161 611 3264, e-mail
heidi.wright@npc.nhs.uk. |
