Self Care & Supporting your Patients
Self-care leaflets for patients
- The Self Care Forum publishes factsheets on a wide range of conditions including back pain, eczema and migraine.
- The NHS website also has excellent information that you can download for patients via this A-Z list of conditions.
GM Pain Management Resources Hub
GM healthcare professionals can use the new NHS GM Pain Management Resources Hub to support their patients to safely reduce opioids and identify alternatives. Resources include consultation scenarios, clinician tools, self-management guidance, education and training.
NHS GM Pain Management Resources Hub
Patient centered care
NHSE&I Guidance: Patient Consultations
NHSE&I have developed a range of resources to help clinicians during patient consultations. This guidance has been co-designed with clinicians and patients, and informed by a review of existing guidance and research evidence. Click the links below to view the resources.
Choosing how to consult – Full guide
Choosing how to consult – Quick guide
Marie Curie and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society: Daffodil Standards
These standards will help you improve palliative and end-of-life care.
Register for more information and to view the standards.
NHS England Community Pharmacy Animation
NHS England has produced this short animation around community pharmacy explaining the wealth of expertise on hand in the pharmacy. This would be really useful for patients. If you wish to download the video to use on your website, or in your waiting room click here
Swallowing Tablets Leaflet
The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has created a leaflet to help teach children to swallow tablets which can be found here. It may be useful for pharmacy teams to share with parents helping their children learn to take tablets.
Recognising Tick Bites and Lyme Disease
While tick bites and Lyme disease is not treatable under Pharmacy First, patients presenting with these or other similar conditions will need to signposted onwards. Therefore it’s useful for pharmacy teams to learn more about these conditions to better enable them to spot symptoms.
To help with this, Lyme Disease UK has produced a range of resources:
- Photo examples to diagnose the EM rash
- Learning resources for pharmacy teams
- Information for health professionals
Nitazene information sheets
Nitazenes have been detected in a variety of illicit substances in Norfolk including Heroin, Crack Cocaine and Ketamine.
Nitazene information sheets have been produced to share further detail:
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Scabies resources
Following the latest scabies outbreak in Trafford and the rise of national cases, some resources have been published to help identify and treat the condition.
Would you know if you had scabies – Briefing to help identify the condition