Connect with Pharmacy

Connect with Pharmacy uses PharmOutcomes to enable patients to be referred from hospital to their community pharmacy. This allows patients who have been identified in hospital as needing additional support with their medicines to be referred, (through a safe and secure digital platform), to their local community pharmacy when they are discharged. 

The initiative has shown that patients who see their community pharmacist after they've been in hospital are less likely to be readmitted and, if they are, will have a shorter length of stay.

 

This service has now been successfully rolled out from the following hospitals:

• Airedale General Hospital
• Bradford Royal Infirmary
• Calderdale & Huddersfield 
• Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust
• Leeds & York Partnership Trust

 The Connect with Pharmacy guide for all of the above areas can be found below:

Connect with Pharmacy Guide: All Areas - September 2019

 

 

Connect with Pharmacy Bulletins and Videos 

Connect with Pharmacy Bulletin - March 2019 

• Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d07ILyAYEv0
• Patient Video: Meet Mo – How pharmacy teams can help you if your medicines are changed in hospital - https://vimeo.com/258100520  

 

 

Evaluating Connect with Pharmacy

The results showed a reduction in re-admissions and potential post-intervention length of stay, indicating there may be further benefits for our older patients’ experiences and hospital flow.

Evaluating Connect with Pharmacy

 

 

Connect with Pharmacy in Airedale

Connect with Pharmacy went live in Airedale on the 9^th September 2019. From this date hospital discharge letters from Airedale General Hospital will be sent electronically via PharmOutcomes, to community pharmacies. 

 

 

Connect with Pharmacy in Bradford

Phase 1 of Connect with Pharmacy went live in Bradford on the 15th July 2019.   From this date hospital discharge letters from Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are sent electronically, via PharmOutcomes, to community pharmacies. 

Connect with Pharmacy Introduction Letter - Bradford

 

 

Connect with Pharmacy in Calderdale and Huddersfield

Connect with Pharmacy went live in Calderdale and Huddersfield on the 5th November 2018.  We have since rolled this service out to North Kirklees and other surrounding areas.   

Connect with Pharmacy Introduction Letter - Calderdale and Huddersfield

 

 

Connect with Pharmacy in Leeds

Connect with Pharmacy went live in Leeds on the 19^th January 2017.

Connect with Pharmacy Bulletin - March 2017 

Connect with Pharmacy now has pages on the LTHT website.  These can be accessed on the link below:

http://www.leedsth.nhs.uk/a-z-of-services/pharmacy-services/connect-with-pharmacy/

 

 

 

Last Updated: 29th June 2020