Department of Health Social Care
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• NHS England will write to GP practices to raise awareness of monitoring antipsychotic prescription collection. • NHS England will explore with NHS Digital opportunities for primary care systems to alert GPs about prescription collection issues. • NHS England will work with NHS Improvement to ensure discharge letters explicitly detail medication risks for primary care monitoring.
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From Jackie Doyle-Price MP Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Mental Health and Inequalities Department of Health & Department of Health and Social Care 39 Victoria Street Social Care London SW1H OEU Our reference: PFD 1143538 Dr Shirley Radcliffe HM Assistant Coroner; Inner West London Westminster Coroner' s Court 65 Horseferry Road London SWIP 2ED J2 September 2018 Oecv Dr Thank you for your letter of 26 July to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care about the death of Mr Daniel Young: I am responding as Minister with portfolio responsibility for Mental Health: Ihave noted carefully the concerns in your report: My officials have made enquiries with NHS England on these matters. You will be interested to know that NHS England is currently developing a framework for community mental health services which will articulate models of improved joint working between primary and secondary mental health services in community settings. This will support teams to work together to plan a patients care holistically and ensure that any transitions between settings and different teams can be facilitated with the relevant professionals having ready access to all relevant information. This is particularly important for people transitioning between service settings, for whom medication reviews need to be followed up. In addition; I am advised that the framework will set out quality benchmarks and recommendations for local systems, reflecting current evidence and existing guidance Raddple
published by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), to support commissioners and providers across the health and care system to model and implement the framework: It will include considerations regarding medication adherence and medicines optimisation: To support improved care coordination in the community, the framework will set out the competencies and skills that staff from different professional backgrounds will need in order to support people care and to link with other professionals and services to ensure all of a person's needs are met: The framework will recognise needs that require attention, such as support from a community or specialist mental health pharmacist to discuss medication choices and compliance: The community framework will also include examples of best practice information, including evidence-based community discharge processes. These will specifically reference the importance of considering a person '$ discharge destination and ongoing care needs and communicating with relevant teams to ensure that the necessary support is put in place in a timely manner to enable smooth transition. In the interim, NHS England has confirmed that it will undertake the following actions by the end of the year to address the issues noted in your report: NHS England will write to GP practices to make them aware of this issue and to consider what mechanism do or could employ to monitor the collection of antipsychotic medication prescriptions; NHS England will explore with NHS Digital what opportunities there are for primary care clinical systems to alert GPs around prescription collection issues for named patients and named and NHS England will work with NHS Improvement on communication to providers around making discharge letters explicit on medication risks that need to be monitored in primary care. [ this response is helpful. Thank you for bringing your concerns to our attention: bll JACKIE DOYLE-PRICE key- key - they for, special they drugs; hope '
published by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), to support commissioners and providers across the health and care system to model and implement the framework: It will include considerations regarding medication adherence and medicines optimisation: To support improved care coordination in the community, the framework will set out the competencies and skills that staff from different professional backgrounds will need in order to support people care and to link with other professionals and services to ensure all of a person's needs are met: The framework will recognise needs that require attention, such as support from a community or specialist mental health pharmacist to discuss medication choices and compliance: The community framework will also include examples of best practice information, including evidence-based community discharge processes. These will specifically reference the importance of considering a person '$ discharge destination and ongoing care needs and communicating with relevant teams to ensure that the necessary support is put in place in a timely manner to enable smooth transition. In the interim, NHS England has confirmed that it will undertake the following actions by the end of the year to address the issues noted in your report: NHS England will write to GP practices to make them aware of this issue and to consider what mechanism do or could employ to monitor the collection of antipsychotic medication prescriptions; NHS England will explore with NHS Digital what opportunities there are for primary care clinical systems to alert GPs around prescription collection issues for named patients and named and NHS England will work with NHS Improvement on communication to providers around making discharge letters explicit on medication risks that need to be monitored in primary care. [ this response is helpful. Thank you for bringing your concerns to our attention: bll JACKIE DOYLE-PRICE key- key - they for, special they drugs; hope '