NEW NHS PRESCRIPTION SYSTEM NOW IN PLACE

Many knowledgeable customers and healthcare professionals may have noticed that there has been quite a stir in the Ostomy dispensing business recently. This is due to new operational guidelines that were introduced from April 2010 following around 5 years of consultations, reports to and from Whitehall and countless meetings with interested personnel. Now the system is in place and the bottom line is that we need to ask patients to request their G.P.’s start issuing prescriptions for no more than ONE MONTHS REQUIREMENTS on each form. It is the intention of the Dept. of Health to introduce a fully electronic prescription system within the next 2 years and this will rely entirely on GP’s automatically issuing monthly orders. Of course it will be perfectly possible to ask us to effect one delivery every quarter anyway, as before, but in the meantime, we all need to help GPs and the PPA (prescription Pricing Authority) to become attuned to a monthly system a.s.a.p. Please feel free to call if you have any questions about this change.

EXPLOSION IN THE ACCESSORY BUSINESS!

There has been something of an expansion in the accessories business in recent years with new deodorants, skins wipes, skin preps and adhesive removers all designed to enable Ostomists to make ever better use of their products and to maximise their comfort and life. New products like this may or may not have come to your attention, so we would like to help you to be clearer about these things and would love to have you call us for a chat to see if there is something new out there that might just help you to be even more in control of your circumstances and your life. Don’t delay! Call today. 0800 181901