NSAIDS Dispensing GP Practices toolkit
In Spring 2019 Dispensing GP practices across Scotland received their NSAIDs toolkit containing the NSAIDs Communication Care Bundle and resources to support your team to implement it in your practice.
Dispensing GPs - Communication Care Bundle WebEx
We ran a WebEx on 25 June 2019 to explain more about how this toolkit can help you ensure your patients have better information about how to take NSAIDs safely. The presentation slides and WebEx recording will be available here soon. In the meantime check out the resources below.
Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs) Care Bundle toolkit
All the resources in the toolkit box have been developed to help your dispensary team consistently deliver the key safety messages and improve the safety of NSAIDs by ensuring patients have better information about how to take NSAIDs safely. The NSAIDs pharmacy pack for community pharmacists is located here.
Our NSAIDs GP Dispensing Practices communication care bundle guide outlines how these resources can be used.
NSAIDs care bundle
NSAIDs Communication Care Bundle – this toolkit provides a range of resources designed to help you implement the communication bundle and help you build your safety culture. Your NSAIDs toolkit box includes the following:
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Resources for data collection |
Resources to support implementation
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Data collection
Your NSAIDs toolkit includes a data collection form and four run chart sheets. If your team prefers to capture data electronically, data can be entered into the Excel data collection tool. The electronic data collection tool will produce charts for the Communication element.
Our guide on how to use run charts for improvement is available to download here
Supporting materials
The following resources on our webpage ihub.scot/pharmacy-pack were developed with community pharmacy in mind but may be useful for dispensing practices too.
- Our 2-minute guide provides basic information on how to implement the NSAIDs Communication Care Bundle. It should be used with the Communication Care Bundle Guide.
- A recording of the NSAIDs Communication Care Bundle webinar on 8 March 2018 is available to view.
Print-ready versions of the Medicine Sick Day Rules card and leaflets are available to download here along with guidance for external print companies. A print-ready version of the NSAIDs Safety Information card is available to download here.
Further supplies are expected to be managed locally.
For further support, please contact your local Quality Improvement contact or the Primary Care Portfolio team his.pcpteam@nhs.scot.