Pen Needle
Gretagrove Healthcare pharmacists have expertise in the delivery of pen needle reviews and can provide support to improve the management of patients with diabetes to ensure they are managed in line with best practice guidelines.
NICE recommends using the lowest acquisition cost pen needle after considering clinical factors.
Gretagrove Healthcare pharmacists can support practices to:
- Improve patient safety (patient education on injection technique, site rotation and never reusing pen needles)
- Improve quality of pen needle prescribing (optimise needle length, prescribed quantity, appropriate issue of safety needles)
- Increase practice adherence to formulary and reduce expenditure on pen needles
Gretagrove Healthcare pharmacists will undertake an assessment of patients’ notes considering the number of pen needles prescribed in the last 12 months and frequency of use in relation to current therapy.
Where patients have a pen needle prescription initiated or changed, Gretagrove Healthcare can facilitate the intervention and signpost to educational materials to help patients understand optimal injection technique and pen needle use.
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