DoH meets Society and PSNC for home oxygen service talks
Problems with the new home oxygen services have been discussed in Department of Health meetings with both the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee this week.
“The department accepts that there has been failure by the NHS
to implement the changeover in an organised way and we have expressed
our Council’s
deep concerns very clearly,” Hemant Patel, President of the Society,
said.
The meeting helped the Society understand how the situation will be managed
in
future, he said, with more NHS central management support to improve
communication at local level. “The role of pharmacists in helping
ameliorate the effect on patients has been highly praised by ministers
and officials alike, and I have been assured that no pharmacist re-engaging
with the service to help out patients in the transition will suffer financially
as a result,” he added.
“We shall keep a watching brief on the situation, we shall do all
we can to help patients through it and we shall help the department identify
lessons to learn for future change management planning, involving the
profession,” he said. |
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