{"id":41,"date":"2024-05-15T11:09:55","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T10:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-fife\/nhs-borders\/medicines-shortages\/"},"modified":"2024-10-28T09:34:56","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T09:34:56","slug":"medicines-shortages","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-fife\/pages\/medicines-shortages\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicines Shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Medicines Shortage Communication from NHS Fife Director of Pharmacy &#8211;\u00a0Please see below a communication from Scott Garden regarding NHS Fife policy on Medicines Shortages:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Dear Colleagues<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Medicine shortages are unfortunately&nbsp;a frequent occurrence and have been for many years.&nbsp; Resolving these issues to ensure patients get the medicines they require takes considerable time for all of us.&nbsp; There are a variety of actions being taken both at a UK and Scottish level to reduce the frequency and impact of medicine shortages.&nbsp; The Chief Medical and Pharmaceutical Officers for Scotland recently wrote to colleagues outlining some of&nbsp;the actions being taken.&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sehd.scot.nhs.uk\/publications\/DC20191016Brexit.pdf\">https:\/\/www.sehd.scot.nhs.uk\/publications\/DC20191016Brexit.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Best practice standard for managing medicine shortages in primary and secondary care have been produced by the Scottish Government.\u00a0 NHS Fife will follow these standards and these been incorporated into a local policy which also outline roles and responsibility of staff.\u00a0 I would be grateful if you would read and follow the NHS Fife policy.<\/p>\n<cite>Scott Garden &#8211; NHS Fife Director of Pharmacy<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-fife\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/Policy-for-Managing-Medicines-Shortages-in-P-and-S-Care-July-2024-V2.0.pdf\" title=\"Policy for Managing Medicines Shortages in P and S Care July 2024 V2.0\" class=\"link-to-media\">NHS Fife Medicines Shortages Policy<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-fife\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/BLANK-Drug-shortage-memo-SBAR-July-24.docx\" title=\"BLANK Drug shortage memo SBAR (July 24)\" class=\"link-to-media\">Blank SBAR for use in Community Pharmacy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"nhsuk-card__description\">Medicines Shortage Communication from NHS Fife Director of Pharmacy &#8211;\u00a0Please see below a communication from Scott Garden regarding NHS Fife [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":15,"menu_order":24,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-41","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-fife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-fife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-fife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-fife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-fife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-fife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-fife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions\/490"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-fife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-fife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}