Deprescribing Clinic - Ilford, United Kingdom - NELFT North East London Foundation Trust

NELFT North East London Foundation Trust
NELFT North East London Foundation Trust
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Ilford, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Tom O´Connor

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Description
Clinical Service - The post-holder will be the principal clinician in the deprescribing service. The service currently has a case load of about patients seen between fortnightly and 3 monthly. There is an aim to expand this clinical service to see 40 patients by Feb 2024.


Duties include:

Assessment of referrals for suitability for the clinic with Professor Moncrieff Initial assessment of patients and decision on a plan for reduction Periodic follow up with patients to assess progress and adjust reduction regimens accordingly Communication with GPs during the process You will have an experienced administrator to help with booking appointments, arraning follow-ups and sending letters to GPs, etc.

You will have periodic supervision of patients with Professor Moncrieff


Non-clinical activities:
Supervision of pharmacists and other doctors shadowing the clinic. There are often 1 or 2 and sometimes more clinicians shadowing the clinic. Discussion of relevant cases with these clinicians will help to inform others of deprescribing techniques.

Talks to primary care doctors in the trust.

We are trying to communicate what the clinic does to GP practices in the area this will involve occasional talks to GP practices to advertise what we do.

Administering baseline and progress surveys to patients. Monitoring of clinic progress.


We are required to submit yearly progress reports to the LTC board and monitoring of progress month by month will be a part of the role.

Peer support group. We hold a peer support group on the first Tuesday of the month online from 7 to 8.30pm, co-faciliated by an experienced drug withdrawal peer facilitator
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