At Yorkley & Bream we receive shared care requests from a number of different private clinics to take over the prescription of specialist medications. It is important we only take over prescribing in General Practice where it is safe and appropriate for us to do so.
Shared Care agreements are recommendations and we do not have a contractual requirement to follow them. As a Practice we will only consider ‘accepting’ a shared care agreement if the following criteria are met:
- The Private Provider is registered with CQC.
- The requester (for shared care) is registered with either the GMC (General Medical Council) or NMC (Nursing and Midwifery Council)
- The requester supplies a comprehensive shared care document eg. Information on the medication, dose adjustments and clear monitoring instructions.
- The patient agrees to remain supported/ supervised by the private provider for the initiation period and a reasonable time after establishment of their medication has started (min 12 months of therapy).
- Our clinical team need to agree with the content of the Shared Care Plan and feel that it is safe, appropriate, and within our competency as General Practitioners to follow.