Thursday 02 May 2024
Internal Reference Number: FOI_7295
Date Request Received: 11/07/2023 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 09/08/2023 00:00:00
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Request Summary: Parkinsons
Request Category: Charities
| Question Number 1: Does your hospital have a self-administration of medication policy? Y/N if yes: a) Does it enable all people with Parkinson’s admitted to the hospital to be assessed to administer their own medication should they wish to do so? b) Does your hospital have the necessary resources (e.g. lockable cupboards, staff training) to enact the self-administration of medication policy? c) How many inpatient wards/departments is the self-administration of medication policy operational in out of the total number of inpatient wards/departments? | |
| Answer To Question 1: a) Yes b) Yes c) All | |
| Question Number 2: Training Do you require inpatient hospital ward clinical staff who prescribe or administer medicine to complete training on medication management in Parkinson’s? Y/N If yes: a) Is this training mandatory for staff who prescribe or administer medicine ? b) Please specify the name of this training and course provider? c) What percentage of staff who prescribe or administer medicine have completed this training? d) Which types of clinician are required to complete this training? e) How often do you require staff who prescribe or administer medicine to repeat this training? | |
| Answer To Question 2: a) No N/A b) N/A c) N/A d) N/A e) N/A | |
| Question Number 3: Do you require inpatient hospital ward clinical staff to complete training on time critical or time sensitive medications (including Parkinson’s medication)? Y/N, if yes: a) Is this training mandatory for staff who prescribe or administer medicine? b) Please specify the name of this training and course provider? c) What percentage of staff who prescribe or administer medicine have completed this training? d) Which types of clinician are required to complete this training? e) How often do you require staff who prescribe or administer medicine to repeat this training? | |
| Answer To Question 3: a) YES for nursing staff b) This is provided as part of the mandatory training for all nursing staff, provided internally by the pharmacy team. c) 100% of nurses have completed the training. d) Nursing Staff e) Once, mandatory training may be repeated as a refresher | |
| Question Number 4: E-prescribing Does your hospital have e-prescribing? Y/N a) Does it have the functionality to record when medication was administered in 30 minute intervals over a 24 hour period? b) Does it have the functionality to alert hospital ward staff when a patient’s medication is due to be administered? c) Does it have the functionality to alert hospital ward staff when a patient’s medication is late in being administered? d) Does your hospital have an electronic alert system to identify patients requiring time critical medication? If yes, please list the health conditions included as requiring time critical medication? e) Does your hospital use an e-prescribing system to regularly run reports of delayed medication doses and ‘drugs not available’ for Parkinson’s medication? | |
| Answer To Question 4: YES a) YES b) YES c) YES d) NO e) NO | |
| Question Number 5: Are Parkinson’s medications available to clinical staff 24 hours a day, seven days a week? (e.g. this medication is stocked in an emergency medicines cabinet) | |
| Answer To Question 5: YES | |
| Question Number 6: Do you have a system in place to ensure people with Parkinson’s get their medication on time while waiting to be seen in the Accident and Emergency department? | |
| Answer To Question 6: YES | |
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