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Tailored Dispensing Service (TDS)

Abigail Barry Senior Prescribing Advisor

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Introduction and Overview

• Current service
• Feedback
• Meeting the challenge
• Re-commissioning?
• Preparation and support

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Feedback

• Patients
• GPs and other stakeholders
• TDS providers

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Meeting the challenge

• Improving the quality of patient care
• Improving clinical outcomes
• Reducing medicines waste
• Financial challenge
• Evidence

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Service Changes

• Reviewed list of TDS items
• Identification of unused medicines
• Scale and waste
• Patient impact
• Repeat prescription ordering
• Records of significant interventions

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• To apply for the service you must look out for the

advert on the Government Contract Finder website

• Not a competition but an accreditation process
• The CCG will hold another briefing session on

Wednesday 10th January, after publishing the advert

• The CCG will offer further guidance and support in

relation to the application process and service requirements – oreolorun.ojo@nhs.net

AQP Procurement

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Qualification Timetable

Milestone Date Advert and application document available

• n Contracts Finder

03/01/2018 Deadline for clarification questions 31/01/2018 Application deadline 07/02/2018 Evaluation of applications 07/02/2018 – 07/03/2018 Providers informed of outcome April 2018 Service Mobilisation April 2018 – 03/06/2018 Contract start date 04/06/2018 6th December 2017

Preparing to apply

• Look at opportunities to collaborate; look at your partners

and if they can offer support

• Look at national body (PSNC) for support
• Identify what we can do now – register on Delta as a supplier,

look at Safeguarding, IG and QAF requirements – info is available on the CCG website

• Identify any gaps
• Plan to meet the key dates

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The Application and Guidance

All application questions will be on the Delta e sourcing portal

• Questions 1 – 6: Government Standard Supplier Questionnaire
• Questions in section 7 are CCG standards and key requirements
• Safeguarding (golden thread)
• Information Governance
• Clinical Governance and Resilience (QAF)
• IM&T

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Safeguarding Children and Young People, and Looked After Children & Adults at Risk

“The safety and welfare of Children, Young People, Children Looked After and Adults at Risk is of paramount importance to Bromley Clinical Commissioning Group (BCCG). We work diligently to ensure that all of the services we commission ensure high quality safe effective care. In

• rder to achieve this we have robust arrangements in place to provide

strong leadership, vision and direction for safeguarding. All staff members have a responsibility for reporting abuse and neglect in accordance with relevant legislation, statutory guidance and best practice”

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Safeguarding Commissioning Framework

BCCG has adopted a Commissioning Framework for safeguarding Children and Young People, and Children Looked After, & for Adults at risk. The safeguarding procurement standards component of this Framework outlines how Bromley CCG will assure itself that bidders and commissioned service providers are compliant with these requirements

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Safeguarding Procurement Standards

The Procurement standards are divided into:

• Essential Safeguarding Threshold Standards, which set out

the extensive legal basis for safeguarding, including statutory guidance and also the Pan London safeguarding requirements and

• Additional Safeguarding Quality Standards, which define

elements of best practice that are applied proportionally to each individual procurement exercise

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Safeguarding Procurement Standards Continued

Prospective bidders must provide evidence of their compliance with the Essential Safeguarding Threshold Standards. The CCG Safeguarding Team will scrutinise bidder responses, including the policies and guidance for:

• Safeguarding Children and Young People, and Children Looked After
• Safeguarding Adults at Risk
• Consent to treatment
• Mental Capacity, including Deprivation of Liberty
• PREVENT, and
• Accountability and Assurance diagram

The Framework and Standards documents are embedded as attachments in the BCCG procurement pack, and are also available on the CCG webpage.

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Minimum Training Requirements

Level 1 Safeguarding – All staff providing the service should have had this training Level 2 – 80 % of Pharmacist and Technicians should have had this training

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Quality Assurance Framework Requirements

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What is the QAF?

The Quality Assurance Framework sets out the minimum criteria that all locally commissioned services are expected to evidence It is designed to assist potential and actual service providers to demonstrate how the organisation meets the quality criteria.

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TDS QAF

Tailored to consider type of provider Narrative with supporting evidence (where possible) required from provider Support available from CCG to achieve standards (where appropriate within a set timeframe)

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Considerations

To encourage Providers the CCG will acknowledges that:

• Providers may have supporting evidence but in different

policies/procedures

• Providers may have existing practices which are broadly

aligned to the QAF

• Providers may be willing to work towards achieving

standards over a period of time

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Information Governance

Bidders must identify and describe how Data Records of NHS patients will be managed within the service and the safeguards that will be in place to ensure confidentiality of patient information.

• 1. How your organisation will demonstrate compliance with

Information Governance legislation, national standards and NHS policies and guidance in the delivery of this service (Level 2 IG Toolkit, ICO Registration, Code of Practice)

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• 2. Confirmation that your IM&T Systems do not require any patient-

identifiable data to be transferred outside the European Economic Area (EEA). You must list any countries outside England you plan to transfer client identifiable data to

• 3. How your IM&T Systems will manage the security, confidentiality and

quality of patient information and include in your response the use of the standards, good practice, and statutory

• bligations (consent, dissent, Role Based Access, data quality)

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• 4. Your mechanism for managing risks of information governance

breaches

• 5. Assurance that staff providing this service are aware of any IG

matters arising from provision of care

Data Protection Act

NB: On 25th May 2018 the Data Protection Act will be superseded by the General Data Protection Act.

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