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Templates

National PGD templates are developed with experts for clinical specialties. They reduce duplication and variation, and improve consistency of care.

SPS National Medicines Governance Do Once programme

About the SPS Medicines Governance Do Once Programme
The programme reduces duplication of effort and improves quality and consistency through national PGD templates and Medicines Policy and Governance principles
Policy, Commissioning and Managerial4 October 2021
Implementing the National Patient Group Direction (PGD) Templates
SPS national PGD templates can be implemented by organisations to improve consistency and reduce duplication of effort.
Templates4 October 2021
SPS National Patient Group Direction (PGD) exemplar templates
The SPS National Medicines Governance Do Once programme produce national Patient Group Direction (PGD) exemplar templates for local adaptation
Templates20 June 2019
Contents
  1. New or recently updated
  2. Ambulance
  3. Community Pharmacy
  4. Infection and infectious diseases
    1. Central nervous system infections
    2. Hepatitis C
    3. Respiratory tract infections
    4. Skin infections
    5. Urinary tract infections
  5. Pregnancy and supportive medicines
  6. Public Health
  7. Radiology
  8. Reproductive health and contraception
  9. Sexual health
  10. Smoking cessation

New or recently updated

PGD templates published or updated within the last 3 months.

Ambulance

Created by SPS with the support of NASMeD and JRCALC.

Community Pharmacy

The NHS Pharmacy First Service PGDs/protocols can be found at:
Community Pharmacy advanced service specification: NHS Pharmacy First Service

Any queries regarding the NHS Pharmacy First Service PGDs/protocols should be directed to: ENGLAND.CommunityPharmacy@nhs.net

Infection and infectious diseases

Created by SPS with the support of specialist stakeholders including NICE, RCGP, ARPHAI, UKHSA and NHSE.

Central nervous system infections

Hepatitis C

Created by SPS with the support of specialist stakeholders working within clinical practice.
The hepatitis C PGDs have now been shared with the Operational Delivery Networks (ODNs) by the hepatitis C elimination team at NHS England.
Any queries regarding access to the hepatitis C PGDs should be directed to: ENGLAND.hepc-enquiries@nhs.net

Respiratory tract infections

Skin infections

Urinary tract infections

Pregnancy and supportive medicines

For use in antenatal and maternity services across all healthcare sectors.

Created by SPS and NHSE, with the support of specialist stakeholders working within clinical practice and the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (RCOG), as part of the wider Preventative Medicines in Pregnancy programme.

Public Health

PGD templates are developed by UKHSA for a variety of clinical scenarios.

Note these PGDs are not developed by SPS; any queries regarding these templates should be directed to the UKHSA immunisation team at immunisation@ukhsa.gov.uk

Radiology

Created by SPS, NHS England, the Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) and the Society and College of Radiographers (SCoR), with the support of specialists working within NHS clinical practice. For use in radiology service in NHS England commissioned services.

Reproductive health and contraception

For use within reproductive health and contraception services across all healthcare sectors.

Created by SPS and the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Health (FSRH), with the support of specialist stakeholders working within clinical practice.

Sexual health

For use within sexual health services across all healthcare sectors.

Created by SPS and the British Association of Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH)/British Association of HIV (BHIVA), with the support of specialist stakeholders working within clinical practice.

Smoking cessation

Created by SPS with the support of specialist stakeholders including the National Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training (NCSCT), College of Mental Health Pharmacy (CMHP) and NHSE.