Signposting
As well as providing lifestyle advice on areas such as smoking, healthy eating, keeping active, managing exacerbations and inhaler technique, patients can be signposted to websites for finding out more about managing their conditions and supporting them in altering their lifestyles to minimise symptoms, including:
Practice points
- What are the potential barriers to providing more NMS consultations? How can you and your pharmacy team overcome these?
- Do you offer a smoking cessation service in your pharmacy? If not, are you confident that you know where you can refer people to locally?