Secretarial, Strategic and Support services
As well as our published work we also provide a range of professional secretarial, strategic and support services, contact the centre to discuss options in full at nuth.nyrdtc.rxsupp@nhs.net.
Strategic Support and Planning
Provided as required to local or regional strategic medicines groups, contact the centre to discuss options in full at nuth.nyrdtc.rxsupp@nhs.net
| Service | Description | Frequency |
|---|---|---|
| Medicines plan development | Support for the development of an integrated care system medicines plan produced annually and revised bi-annually. Accompanied by a monitoring and assurance schedule. To be developed with the senior pharmacy and medicines optimisation team. | Annual |
| Group attendance | Attendance at a regular committee or group meeting, in an advisory capacity, to provide strategic input. | Up to 12, 2-hour virtual meetings a year |
Professional Secretarial Services and Functions
Available throughout the year.
| Service | Description |
|---|---|
| Professional secretarial services | Running of a group, including agenda setting, minute taking, governance (including ToR prep), annual report, decision summaries, newsletters, membership maintenance, and maintaining a DOI register. Up to twelve 2-hour virtual meetings supported per year to include subgroups Professional secretarial support for main group provided by experienced pharmacist supported by wider multidisciplinary team |
| Enquiry answering | Answering or redirecting enquiries specifically related to the group and its decisions |
| Sharing of group decisions | Uploading of decisions to a formulary platform or website |
| Provision and maintenance of a group website | Provision of a platform or website, and maintenance of content such as group decisions, pathways and guidelines, and meeting minutes (additional fee may apply) |
| Consultation management | The management of a consultation process to include preparing consultation questions, uploading documents, collating responses, and passing to document author(s) for action |
Formulary Management
Available throughout the year.
| Service | Description |
|---|---|
| Formulary maintenance | Assessment of formulary applications, full and regular reviews of formulary, and routine amendments to reflect national guidance and safety alerts. Includes full professional secretariat to a formulary group. Twelve 2-hour virtual meetings supported per year to include subgroups. Professional secretarial support for main formulary group provided by experienced senior pharmacist supported by wider multidisciplinary team. |
Pathways and Guidelines Development and Management
Provided as required, contact the centre to discuss options in full at nuth.nyrdtc.rxsupp@nhs.net
| Service | Description |
|---|---|
| Clinical pathway checking or revision | Clinical checking or revision of clinical guidelines, pathways, or shared care protocols, to provide assurance on clinical appropriateness and safety |
| Clinical pathway development | Development of clinical guidelines, pathways, or shared care protocols, using robust and transparent processes to ensure high quality |
| Working group support | Running a clinical working group, decision group, or task and finish group to support production or revision of clinical guidelines and pathways |
| Basic financial and commissioning impact | Determining the basic impacts of a pathway or guideline, including impact on commissioned services |