LTC - Dates

Clarification of LTC Dates; Start Date, End Date, Review date.

There has been a lot of confusion around how these dates should be set, due to the use of the Community Pharmacy Portal (LTC registration system used by Te Whatu Ora and DHB’s).

The following may help:

Initial LTC Start Date: Registration date. This should match the date that the first LTC assessment resulted in a score of 20 or more provided that the patient had given consent.

• This may need to be after they were exited at a previous pharmacy

End Date: EXIT Service date. Only set this IF the patient has exited the service. When this is set – the LTC Status should also be set to one of the relevant Exit statuses.

• If you have accidently done this make sure when you restart them that you set the date for the next day, or this will cause an error.

Review Date: The date that the patient should next be reviewed for their annual LTC assessment – to ensure they're still eligible for the service.

You can now use LTC manager for the following but for your information I have left this here.

NB: Patients can be easily retrieved by Review date in

• 9. Other
• 2. Bulk Edit Patients
• F11 next page  

The review date is also shown on the Rx entry screen for LTC patients.

Notes: It may be the case that pharmacy has set the end date to start date plus12 months, and the review date to the date the patient WAS last reviewed.