NatPaCT provides help for new contract implementation
Two new tools to help primary care trusts plan for the implementation of the new community pharmacy contract in England and Wales have been launched.
The documents, produced by the National Primary and Care Trust Development
Programme (NatPaCT), are a complete version of a pharmaceutical needs assessment toolkit and an implementation plan for the new contract. The
plan provides a month-by-month guide to tasks that should be completed
in the run-up to implementation.
Heather Gray, project director of the medicines management, pharmacy
and prescribing significant issues group at NatPaCT, commented: “I
hope that the toolkit will support PCTs in identifying needs and working
out how to get pharmacy involved.” She said
that by now all PCTs should have started thinking about how the new contract
will be implemented but added that the NatPaCT documents, along with
others produced
by the National Pharmaceutical Association
and Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education, provide something tangible
to help with the process. |
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