Penny Daynes, an associate regional pharmacy procurement specialist at SPS, presents a summary of the resources published by SPS between 7th and 13th June.

To easily find a list of newly published pages go to sps.nhs.uk, select ‘search’, click in the search bar, and press enter.

Quick links to highlighted resources:

Job vacancy

SPS Medicines Advice Pharmacist

https://careers.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/current-vacancies/#!/job/v7226351

People living with diabetes and what insulin safety means to them podcast

We share conversations with people living with diabetes, the impact of their diabetes diagnosis, diabetes devices, their faith, and also shared experiences of the effects of hypoglycaemia and admissions to hospital on their diabetes journey.

https://www.sps.nhs.uk/articles/developing-insulin-safety-across-a-system/

Implementing pharmacogenomic testing for aminoglycosides

Patients with mitochondrial variants have an increased risk of deafness with amikacin, gentamicin, neomycin and tobramycin. Guidance on testing is provided.

https://www.sps.nhs.uk/articles/implementing-pharmacogenomic-testing-for-aminoglycosides/

Doxycycline PGD template

National PGD templates are developed with experts for clinical specialties. They reduce duplication and variation, and improve consistency of care.

https://www.sps.nhs.uk/home/guidance/patient-group-directions-and-legal-mechanisms/national-pgd-templates/

Time Critical Medicines Quality Improvement Collaborative

We invite NHS Trusts to express an interest in joining this quality improvement collaborative

https://www.sps.nhs.uk/articles/time-critical-medicines-quality-improvement-collaborative/

Next events – forthcoming webinars and conferences

https://www.sps.nhs.uk/home/events/next-events/

Podcast description:

NHS Specialist Pharmacy Service serves healthcare professionals across the NHS who are involved in all aspects of buying, making and using medicines. Our motto is 'do once and share'.