Bitter PILs
We have been really disappointed with our local health promotion campaigns recently.
We know that the local PCTs are in uproar with all the reconfigurations and that PCT staff must generally feel pretty fed up with the whole thing, however we do feel that they have been paying us lip service recently when it comes to the six annual health promotion campaigns.
The reason for this is that we received our latest two monthly ‘campaign’ from the PCT which consisted of a signposting document and a grand total of 2-3 PILs for each subject.
So I rang them to say that we needed substantially more PILs in order to run a successful campaign, but none ever arrived. Therefore, we haven’t run this campaign since we simply haven’t got enough patient information to do so.
I hope things improve once the new PCT has settled down.
We know that the local PCTs are in uproar with all the reconfigurations and that PCT staff must generally feel pretty fed up with the whole thing, however we do feel that they have been paying us lip service recently when it comes to the six annual health promotion campaigns.
The reason for this is that we received our latest two monthly ‘campaign’ from the PCT which consisted of a signposting document and a grand total of 2-3 PILs for each subject.
So I rang them to say that we needed substantially more PILs in order to run a successful campaign, but none ever arrived. Therefore, we haven’t run this campaign since we simply haven’t got enough patient information to do so.
I hope things improve once the new PCT has settled down.
posted by Dee Spencer at 3:35 pm
2 Comments:
PCTs do seem to have a problem with these campaigns - some of the materials I've seen have had quite an unprofessional look to them. We also seem to have issues over timing - with the best will in the world, PCT staff don't always seem to understand the demands of running a busy pharmacy and tend to send the materials out with insufficient notice.
Yes, I do feel that these schemes could be used to much greater effect across our patch.
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