ID

RM197

Version

1.0.0

Type

Roadmap Item

Frameworks

N/A

Title

Community Pharmacy Clinical Services Service Standard

Description

Introduction of a Service Standard for Community Pharmacy Clinical Services.

Date Added

Standards and Capabilities

N/A

Change Route

Opportunity Item

Change Type

New

Status

Draft

Publication Date

TBC

Effective Date

N/A

Incentives / Funding

Yes

Incentive / Funding Dates

Incentive and funding details to be provided to Suppliers separately.

Background

A Service Standard is being introduced to describe the Community Pharmacy Clinical Services service, including the associated features and operating capabilities.

Introduction to Service Standards

A new class of Standard is being introduced into the Digital Services for Integrated Care (DSIC) environment; the Service Standard.

What is a Service Standard?

A Service Standard is a DSIC representation of the required components of a discretely delivered service within a health and care setting, that can:

A Service Standard operates within DSIC in the same manner that any other Standard operates under the Agreement in relation to Change Management, the Roadmap, Assurance etc.

What is a Service Standard used for?

The purpose of a Service Standard is to describe a domain specific service, feature or operating capability to a customer, which they can use to confirm the existence of the service feature or operating capability and its valid operation within a given application.

The Service Standard is also used for identifying and managing change within the whole service as it can be amended via the Roadmap as services are updated. The Roadmap can also be used to incentivise delivery of the Standard or changes to the Standard via a Roadmap Award.

Service Standard Structure

A Service Standard follows similar principles to Capabilities and Standards and consists of:

Outline Plan

The Service Standard; including all Capabilities, Epics, Interoperability Standards and Secondary Artefacts, will be developed further as requirements are finalised.

Summary of Change

Outlines the changes being applied to the Standard and/or Capability.

Community Pharmacy Referral Management Capability

Epic and Acceptance Criterion Titles

CPRM001 - receive Referral for a Patient from a Health or Care Organisation

Acceptance criterion 1: receive Referral for a Patient from a Health or Care Organisation

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CPRM001 - Additional Implementation Details

Solutions MUST comply with the following when implementing this Epic:

CPRM001 - Additional Implementation Details

Solutions MUST comply with the following when implementing this Epic:


CPRM002 - notify Health or Care Professional of a new Referral

Acceptance criterion 1: notify Health or Care Professional of a new Referral


CPRM003 - manage inbound Referrals

Acceptance criterion 1: view Patient Referral information

Acceptance criterion 2: sort Referrals

Acceptance criterion 3: amend Referral Status


CPRM004 - flag overdue Referrals

Acceptance criterion 1: flag overdue Referrals


CPRM005 - manage Patient Referral information

Acceptance criterion 1: record Patient Referral Information

Acceptance criterion 2: amend Patient Referral information

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CPRM005 - Additional Implementation Details

Solutions MUST comply with the following when implementing this Epic:

  • Community Pharmacist Consultation Service data specification TBC

  • Pharmacy Contraception Service data specification TBC

  • Community Pharmacy Blood Pressure Check Service data specification TBC

CPRM005 - Additional Implementation Details

Solutions MUST comply with the following when implementing this Epic:

  • Community Pharmacist Consultation Service data specification TBC

  • Pharmacy Contraception Service data specification TBC

  • Community Pharmacy Blood Pressure Check Service data specification TBC


CPRM006 - refer a Patient to a Health or Care Organisation

Acceptance criterion 1: refer a Patient to a Health or Care Organisation

Community Pharmacy Consultation Capability

Epic and Acceptance Criterion Titles

CPC001 - verify Patient information using Personal Demographics Service (PDS)

Acceptance criterion 1: verify Patient information using Personal Demographics Service (PDS)

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CPC001 - Additional Implementation Details

Solutions MUST comply with the following when implementing this Epic:

CPC001 - Additional Implementation Details

Solutions MUST comply with the following when implementing this Epic:


CPC002 - view Patient Clinical information held outside of the Solution

Acceptance criterion 1: view Patient Clinical information held outside of the Solution

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CPC002 - Additional Implementation Details

Solutions MUST comply with one of the following when implementing this Epic:

CPC002 - Additional Implementation Details

Solutions MUST comply with one of the following when implementing this Epic:


CPC003 - record medicine and medical device details for a Patient

Acceptance criterion 1: record medicine and medical device details for a Patient

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CPC003 - Additional Implementation Details

Solutions MUST comply with the following when implementing this Epic:

CPC003 - Additional Implementation Details

Solutions MUST comply with the following when implementing this Epic:


CPC004 - notify Health or Care Professional to provide worsening advice to Patient

Acceptance criterion 1: notify Health or Care Professional to provide worsening advice to Patient


CPC005 - notify Health or Care Professional to signpost Patient to GP

Acceptance criterion 1: notify Health or Care Professional to signpost Patient to GP


CPC006 - access Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) Tracker

Acceptance criterion 1: access Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) Tracker

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CPC006 - Additional Implementation Details

Solutions MUST comply with the following when implementing this Epic:

CPC006 - Additional Implementation Details

Solutions MUST comply with the following when implementing this Epic:


CPC007 - access NICE Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS)

Acceptance criterion 1: access NICE Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS)

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CPC007 - Additional Implementation Details

Solutions MUST comply with the following when implementing this Epic:

  • Access to be provided to NICE Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS)

  • NICE Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS) is available for:

    • Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (Minor Illness)

    • Community Pharmacy Blood Pressure Check Service

    • Pharmacy Contraception Service

CPC007 - Additional Implementation Details

Solutions MUST comply with the following when implementing this Epic:

  • Access to be provided to NICE Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS)

  • NICE Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS) is available for:

    • Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (Minor Illness)

    • Community Pharmacy Blood Pressure Check Service

    • Pharmacy Contraception Service


CPC008 - access Contraception advice tools

Acceptance criterion 1: access Contraception advice tools

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CPC008 - Additional Implementation Details

Solutions MUST comply with the following when implementing this Epic:

CPC008 - Additional Implementation Details

Solutions MUST comply with the following when implementing this Epic:


CPC009 - access BMI calculator

Acceptance criterion 1: access BMI calculator

CPC009 - Supporting Information


CPC010 - access Patient Group Directions (PGD)

Acceptance criterion 1: access Patient Group Directions (PGD)


CPC011 - record Patient consent for participating in a Consultation

Acceptance criterion 1: record Patient consent for participating in a Consultation


CPC012 - record Patient consent to sharing data with Health or Care Organisations

Acceptance criterion 1: record Patient consent to sharing data with Health or Care Organisations


CPC013 - retrieve Health or Care Organisation details using Directory of Services (DoS)

Acceptance criterion 1: retrieve Health or Care Organisation details using Directory of Services (DoS)

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CPC013 - Additional Implementation Details

Solutions MUST comply with the following when implementing this Epic:

  • Directory of Services (DoS) Standard TBC

CPC013 - Additional Implementation Details

Solutions MUST comply with the following when implementing this Epic:

  • Directory of Services (DoS) Standard TBC


CPC014 - print NHS FP10DT

Acceptance criterion 1: print NHS FP10DT

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CPC014 - Additional Implementation Details

Solutions MUST comply with the following when implementing this Epic:

CPC014 - Additional Implementation Details

Solutions MUST comply with the following when implementing this Epic:


CPC015 - manage Consultation information for a Patient

Acceptance criterion 1: record Consultation information for a Patient

Acceptance criterion 2: send notification to Patient’s registered GP Practice

Acceptance criterion 3: view Consultation information for a Patient

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CPC015 - Additional Implementation Details

Solutions MUST comply with the following when implementing this Epic:

CPC015 - Additional Implementation Details

Solutions MUST comply with the following when implementing this Epic:


CPC016 - share a record of a Patient’s Consultation to the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA)

Acceptance criterion 1: share a record of a Patient’s Consultation to the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA)

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CPC016 - Additional Implementation Details

Solutions MUST comply with the following when implementing this Epic:

CPC016 - Additional Implementation Details

Solutions MUST comply with the following when implementing this Epic:

Secondary Artefacts

The following requirements are overarching across the Capabilities within the Service Standard:

  • Non-Functionals

    • IT platform Suppliers are required to provide helpdesk support for the following periods:
      Monday to Friday: 8am – 6pm
      Weekends: 8am – 2pm
      Bank holidays: Response within 24 hours

  • Information Governance

    • Only authenticated users should access the IT platform. i.e. Pharmacists (and technicians where appropriate.

    • Practitioners should register using their full name (as registered with GPhC) and GPhC number​.

    • Where onward referral is applied, Pharmacists must ensure that Patients consent to data being shared with new organisation.

  • Service Management

    • Issues affecting service provision must be acknowledged within 24 hours.

    • Issues reported by users, that affect service provision, must be reported to the NHS National Helpdesk as soon as possible.

    • IT issues affecting service availability and planned outages should be reported to the National Service Desk (NSD) by calling 0300 303 5035 or by emailing ssd.nationalservicedesk@nhs.net.

    • The incident report should include all data fields as defined in the service Data Specification. The completed form must be sent as PDF to the [pre-configured] NHSmail address of the CPCS Service Manager.

    • The IT platform must generate a monthly return to send to each NHS Trust to satisfy key performance indicators: KP10, KP11 and KP13.

Full Specification

The Community Pharmacy Clinical Services Service Standard links will be provided at a later date.

Assurance Approach

In order to achieve assured status against a Service Standard a Supplier must go through an assurance process which includes:

The assurance undertaken for a Service Standard is confined to elements of the software which are concerned with the service in question. Therefore the presence of a Service Standard does not necessarily mean that assurance of a whole Supplier Solution has occurred under the DSIC, unless that is stated elsewhere.