PQS 2022/23 – Antimicrobial Stewardship
Antimicrobial stewardship
Pharmacy staff must have reviewed their practice to include two TARGET leaflets;
- Treating your infection – Urinary Tract Infection (UTI); and
- Treating your infection – Upper Respiratory Tract Infection (RTI)
to help them assess patients presenting to the pharmacy with suspected UTI or upper RTI without a prescription, provide tailored advice to patients and promote awareness of antimicrobial resistance and antimicrobial stewardship. The leaflets are available in multiple languages.
This review must be completed by the end of 31st March 2023 and must be carried out over four weeks with a minimum of 15 patients for each leaflet, or up to eight weeks if the minimum number of patients are not achieved within four weeks for each leaflet.
Where no patients are identified for the review, the contractor will still be eligible for payment if they can evidence that they have robustly attempted to identify suitable patients. They will need to declare no patients have been identified as being suitable for review on the data collection tool on MYS by the end of 31st March 2023.
31st March 2023′
- All staff working in the pharmacy on declaration day should have completed the Infection prevention and control Level 1 e-learning and assessment on the elfh website.
- All registered staff working in the pharmacy on declaration day should have completed the Infection Prevention and Control Level 2 e-learning and assessment on the elfh website.
- All staff working in the pharmacy on declaration day should have completed the Antimicrobial Stewardship for Community Pharmacy e-learning and e-assessment.
- By the end of 31st March 2023 all staff that provide advice on medicines or healthcare, working in the pharmacy on the day of the declaration should have become Antibiotic Guardians, and have an awareness of the content of the local antibiotic formulary and how to access it.
Local formulary can be found on the Nottinghamshire APC website – https://www.nottsapc.nhs.uk/guidelinesformularies/antimicrobial-guidelines/
For more information on declaration information go to PSNC PQS 2022/23 website page
