 Re: PCT policies
Chlamydia testing - just been to a meeting tonight to launch a chlamydia testing and treatment service, which looks well thought out. However, PCT also want us to give out condoms to people with a C-card, without paying contractors anything. The chair of the LPC was not impressed.
Warfarin - this demonstrates how successful the nurses have been at expanding their roles, and doing things that we should be doing. Monitoring INR is ideally suited for pharmacists - warfarin interacts with foods, vitamins, drugs and nurses don't really have the knowledge needed. INR monitoring can be done in community pharmacy, and patients love it when compared to their experience of hospital clinics. Enzyme inducers would be expected to decrease INR.
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