Home Oxygen Services

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Home Oxygen Services

• Peter Williams
• National Project Manager
• Primary Care Contracting
• prwill_at_onetel.com

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Some benefits of new service

• Improved patient assessment processes
• Wider range of services available for patients
• Latest technologies
• 24/7 helpline
• Rapid response times
• improved data to support clinical, performance
  and cost management
• Less bureaucracy -one standard form for ordering
  O2

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Timescales

• New service to start 1st February 2006
• but
• transition periods pre and post 1st February 2006

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TASKS

• Maintain the present service until 1st February
  2006
• Prepare for the new service

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Service maintenance

• GP prescribing practice
• Concentrator threshold
• 2122 Cylinders
• Headsets
• Cylinder amnesty
• Community Pharmacists
• Patient awareness of changes

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Preparation for the new service

• Patient Data Collection.
• Patient consent.
• Patient awareness.
• Supplier preparedness.
• Service awareness GPs, PCTs, Trusts, PPA.
• Community pharmacist decommissioning.

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Risks associated with the new service

• Maintaining services during the transition
  periods
• Commissioning respiratory assessment services
• Financial
• Demands for new services
• Involvement of all stakeholders

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What will happen on 01/02/06?

• No new FP10s accepted from 1st February 2006
• New patients Oxygen ordered on HOOF from 1st
  February.
• Community Pharmacists can continue to dispense
  after 1st February until FP10 expires.
• Patients transferred to new supplier on expiry of
  FP10.
• Oxygen continues to be ordered until assessment
  services in place.

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QUESTIONS?

• Email prwill_at_onetel.com
• Website www.primarycarecontracting.nhs.uk