Presentation by Paul Mooney, Deputy Director of Pharmacy, Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust at the Transfers of Care Around Medicine training session on Thursday, 26 September at The Village Hotel, Wirral.

1. Implementation of TCAMs at WUTH
Paul Mooney, Deputy Director of Pharmacy
26th September 2019

2. Why do this?
If TCAMs was rolled out across all 15 AHSNs in 2019-20,
there would be
• savings of £28.8 million
• a reduction in length of stay of 113,406 days
• 2,007 fewer readmissions

3. Outline
• Intended benefits
• WUTH processes (including consent)
• Notifications sent
• Information received in community pharmacy
• Key contacts

4. Intended benefits
• Improves patient care by:
• Sharing information with community pharmacy
• Requesting follow up services for the patient
• Ensuring medication changes are actioned
• Reduction in readmission and bed days
• Reduction in drug waste
• Improves patient experience

5. WUTH data entry screen

6. Consent

7. Admission notifications

8. Admission notifications
• Currently – blisterpack / venalinks / Medidose
patients only
• Future plans – patients on methadone or
buprenorphine, restricted supply patients
• Any other groups?
Suggestions welcomed

11. Discharge notifications
• Patient details
• Admission details – consultant, ward
• Allergy status
• Prescribed medications
• Stops, starts and changes
• Referral for additional support / service
• Name of pharmacist making referral

12. Discharge notification / referral

15. Key contacts
• Pharmacy Informatics team – technical issues
wuth.pharmacyinformatics@nhs.net
• Pharmacy Medicines Safety team – clinical incidents
wih-tr.MSO1@nhs.net
• Anything urgent should be addressed by a phone call
0151 482 7690

16. Any questions?
• Please feel free to contact me after the
session with any questions, comments
or feedback on the project:
paul.mooney3@nhs.net