{"id":8929,"date":"2019-01-16T10:24:25","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T10:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stockportccg.nhs.uk\/practicehub\/?p=8929"},"modified":"2019-01-16T10:24:25","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T10:24:25","slug":"community-iv-therapy-sessions-mastercall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/practice-news\/community-iv-therapy-sessions-mastercall\/","title":{"rendered":"Community IV Therapy Sessions &#8211; Mastercall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mastercall Healthcare, who provide a Community IV Therapy Service across Stockport, have made some changes to further improve their service after receiving feedback from referrers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The service has now been updated and these changes have been made:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li>Mastercall now take referrals from all appropriate registered health professionals (i.e. RGN, ANP, podiatry)<\/li>\n<li>They liaise with Microbiology for advice<\/li>\n<li>They offer PICC and Midline insertion<\/li>\n<li>Referrals to the service can be made 24\/7 (please note referrals are formally accepted in their core service hours &#8211; 8am-10pm)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Community IV Therapy Service is for:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li>All patients registered with Stockport GPs<\/li>\n<li>Any patient requiring IV antibiotic medication over the age of 18<\/li>\n<li>All infections requiring once or twice daily IV antimicrobial therapy, and in some instances 24-hour pump with micro advice<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Patients are closely monitored by Mastercall with twice weekly virtual MDT ward round with GP, nurse consultant, IV practitioner and AP.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A pre-referral checklist and poster for this service has been saved at the bottom of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mastercall.org.uk\/community-service\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.mastercall.org.uk\/community-service&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1547718770978000&amp;usg=AFQjCNF9i1mF0nlv9Gz4YFsJi-vJ9nfdiQ\">this<\/a>\u00a0page of their website if you would like to print it and display it in your GP practice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To refer a patient or find out more, please call\u00a0<strong>0161 476 9646<\/strong>.<\/p>\n   ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mastercall Healthcare, who provide a Community IV Therapy Service across Stockport, have made some changes to further improve their service after receiving feedback from referrers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":610,"featured_media":5937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8930,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8929\/revisions\/8930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}