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Pharmacy First Data Development

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a significant backlog in hospital care, which has in turn contributed to an unprecedented increase in demand for GP appointments. In response, NHS England announced the “Delivery plan for recovering access to primary care”. A key element is the Pharmacy First service, which incorporates urgent supply of repeat medication, consultation for minor illnesses, and a clinical pathways service to assess for and manage seven common conditions, including supplying prescription-only medicines where appropriate. The plan also includes an expansion of the contraception and hypertension case-finding services. These services all aim to enable patients to access care in quicker and more convenient ways where otherwise this may have been more difficult or delayed due to the impacts of the pandemic.

This repository is for data development work to better understand the types of information send to GP records following a community pharmacy consultation. This work will inform future research projects aiming to use this data.

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Details of the purpose and any published outputs from this project can be found at the link above.

The contents of this repository MUST NOT be considered an accurate or valid representation of the study or its purpose. This repository may reflect an incomplete or incorrect analysis with no further ongoing work. The content has ONLY been made public to support the OpenSAFELY open science and transparency principles and to support the sharing of re-usable code for other subsequent users. No clinical, policy or safety conclusions must be drawn from the contents of this repository.

About the OpenSAFELY framework

The OpenSAFELY framework is a Trusted Research Environment (TRE) for electronic health records research in the NHS, with a focus on public accountability and research quality.

Read more at OpenSAFELY.org.

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