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.

We have had a sucessfull rollout of this service from Leeds Teaching Hospitals and Calderdale and Huddersfield Foundation Trust.  In 2019, we are planning further rollout from Bradford Royal Infirmary. Leeds and York Partnerships (mental health and learning disabilities services) and Airedale General Hospital.

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 

Connect with Pharmacy in Leeds

Leeds Teaching Hospital Trust (LTHT) have funded this service improvement project.  Community Pharmacy West Yorkshire (CPWY) are working in partnership with the Leeds Teaching Hospital Trust (LTHT) in the development and implementation of this project.

Connect with Pharmacy Guide

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/

Connect with Pharmacy in Calderdale and Huddersfield

Phase 1 of 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.  

From this date hospital discharge letters from Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary will be sent electronically, via PharmOutcomes, to community pharmacies.

Connect with Pharmacy Introduction Letter - Calderdale and Huddersfield

Connect with Pharmacy Guide - Calderdale and Huddersfield

Last Updated: 25th March 2019