Covid-19 Community Care

o Meets PHARMAC eligibility criteria (if they were COVID-19 positive) o Renal function information o Advance Prescription o Prescriber’s contact details (including after hours) o Not to be dispensed unless diagnosed with COVID-19 o Electronic prescriptions are preferred over paper prescriptions. Before issuing an advance prescription, prescribers should consider which pharmacy is most appropriate. Considerations should include patient/whānau preference, extended opening hours, and current pharmacy suppliers of these medicines. HealthPoint holds details of supplying pharmacies. o COVID-19 is self-reported under the current high trust settings. If a patient has self-reported a positive test, it can be seen in the COVID Care in the Community Module (CCCM). If the patient has not yet self-reported their positive test, the dispensing pharmacist should encourage or assist him or her to do so. o Once dispensed, COVID-19 Therapeutic agents should be delivered to the patient if required (i.e. if they do not have whānau or friends who cannot collect on their behalf). o Funding is available to support advance prescriptions. The funding is an extension of existing funding rates which were previously agreed for primary care encounters relating to COVID19 activity e.g. third primary vaccine dose, medical exemption assessments, and vaccine adverse events assessments.

Resources:

 Eligibility is complex, therefore PHARMAC have an access tool available. The link is built into the Halcyon form - but can also be found at: pharmac.govt.nz/news-and-resources/covid19/access-criteria-for-covid-19-medicines/ covid-antivirals/access-criteria-assessment-tool/

 MPS Guidance on the risks of prescribing anti-viral medications to treat COVID -19 infections https://www.rnzcgp.org.nz/gpdocs/epulse/MPS-Guidance-antiviral-COVID-19treatments-18-07-2022.pdf? utm_source=RNZCGPNewsletters&utm_medium=RNZCGPNewsletters&utm_campaign=R NZCGPNewsletters

 PHARMAC advice including eligibility information: https://pharmac.govt.nz/news-andresources/covid19/access-criteria-for-covid-19-medicines/covid-antivirals/

 Covid medication interaction checker (University of Liverpool): https://www.covid19druginteractions.org

 Midland health pathways > Covid -19 Case management in Adults > Case Management > Covid-19 Specific Therapies: https://midland.communityhealthpathways.org/728651.htm

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Updated 02/08/2022