BrisDoc IUC Clinical Newsletter – March 2020
In this newsletter:
- Corona virus: COVID-19
- Advice Calls
- Please use Message of the Day
- Palliative care case tags
- Electronic Prescribing
- Adastra reminders
- Clinical Guardian Update from the team
- Sharps
- Concerns about youths at Knowle
- Toxic ingestion cases and Toxbase training
- Urine Testing
- Equipment
BrisDoc IUC Clinical Newsletter – Dec 2019
In this newsletter:
- Reporting safeguarding concerns in IUC – updates to case closure questions
- Welcome to the new IUC Nurse Team Managers
- Weston Early Pregnancy Clinic
- Self-care resources for patients
- Closing cases for patients we have not been able to contact
- Adastra/ EMIS tripwires to avoid
- EPS and medication reminders
- Home visiting cards and Friends and Family feedback from home visits
- Public Health alert about Monkey Pox
- Updated guidance for CCs and PL clinicians streaming cases from despatch
- EMIS reminder
Electronic prescribing is live in IUC!
In this newsletter:
- Electronic prescribing is live in IUC
- FAQs about EPS
Self Care & Antimicrobial Awareness Week
In this newsletter:
- Self-care
- New self-care section on the Clinical Toolkit
- New home visit, and appointment cards to give to patients after F2F assessment
- CPD module to help promote self-care in consultations
- Antimicrobial Updates
- Reminder to familiarise yourself with the 2019 BNSSG Antimicrobial Formulary
- NICE resources to support appropriate antimicrobial prescribing
- Key learning from audit of antimicrobial prescribing for UTI in children (Oct 2019)
- Learning from the audit of Fluoroquinolone prescribing in IUC, July 2019
- Learning from the audit of LRTI antimicrobial prescribing
- Understanding communication with patients about antibiotic prescribing
BrisDoc IUC Clinical Newsletter – Nov 2019
In this newsletter:
- CQC Outstanding for CareUK’s south west NHS111 service
- Message of the Day
- Labelling samples sent to the lab
- Prescribing and medications updates
- MHRA safety alert for montelukast (singulair)
- Updated criteria for 2 hour appointments and home visits
- Clinical Guardian
- Reminder to obtain a flu vaccination
- Shift types in IUC
- ReSPECT
New prioritisation guidance for SevernSide IUC clinicians
In this newsletter:
- New guidance about time-frames for appointments and home visits for patients you triage from the IUC Advice queue.
September 2019 BrisDoc IUC Clinical Newsletter
In this newsletter:
- Clinical Coordinator role
- Home visit policy audit results and learning
- Requesting an ambulance for patients you consult in IUC
- Emergency equipment and emergency drugs at Treatment Centres
- Electronic referrals from IUC
- Accessing blood glucose monitors when pharmacies are closed
- Please test urine samples in the sluice
- Updated antimicrobial formulary
- Issuing drugs from stock
- Syringe drivers in OOH period
August 2019 BrisDoc IUC Clinical Newsletter
In this newsletter:
- Near patient d-dimer testing for patients
- Criteria for passing cases to the Consult and
Hold Queue - Deaths with clinician present
- Shift Manager leadership on shift
- Do not split medication packs when dispensing
from stock - Toxic ingestion cases, and Toxbase training
- Antimicrobial prescribing – NICE guidance
- Advise patients to take rivaroxaban with food
- IUC Peer GP group meetings
July 2019 BrisDoc IUC Clinical Newsletter
In this newsletter:
- Informational outcomes when closing cases on
Adastra - NHS 111 online commences on Monday 1st July 2019
- Coil equipment at bases
- Paediatric UTI management in IUC
- Clinical waste and sharps disposal
- Using EMIS in IUC
- Using the NHS App to access your own medical
records - MRHA safety alert re DNP toxicity
- IUC Peer GP group meetings
- Safeguarding concerns in IUC
June 2019 BrisDoc IUC Clinical Newsletter
In this newsletter:
- New community DVT service for BNSSG
- Faxing prescriptions, and electronic prescribing
update - ICE access
- Tasking cases to IUC colleagues
- ResPect Forms
- Measles outbreak
- IUC workforce measles immunity
- Immunisation Records
- Toxic ingestion cases coming through to the IUC
Advice queue - Dispensing medications from stock
April 2019 BrisDoc IUC Clinical Newsletter
In this newsletter:
- Indemnity for GPs
- New dental service 8am-10pm, accessed via NHS111
- Guidance for when to use the Patient Line in IUC
- Consulting with Healthcare Professional and
Paramedic cases - Clinical Guardian team
- MRHA alert about using the correct oxygen
saturation probes - NEWS2 is here
- MRHA Alert about Fluoroquinolone antibiotic
prescribing (ciprofloxacin, ofloxacin, levofloxacin, moxifloxacin) - Levomepromazine shortages
March 2019 BrisDoc IUC Clinical Newsletter
In this newsletter:
- Introducing the NEW BrisDoc Clinical Toolkit!
- Salbutamol in children < 1 year
- NBT Early Pregnancy Clinic referrals
- Practice liaison service (PLS)
- Medicines Management
- Prescribing controlled drugs (CD) remotely
- Influenza
- EMIS Access
- Death Certification
- Practice Significant Events Meeting
- Education and support for self-employed GPs
working in OOH