FOI/2026/27/14

Your request & Our response

 

 

1. Does your organisation currently use Patient Group Directions (PGDs) to authorise the supply or administration of medicines by registered healthcare professionals? Yes

 

2. Indicate in the table below approximately how many active, approved PGDs your organisation currently holds?

Number Range Indicate with a cross

<20

20-50

50-100                  X

100-300

>300

 

3. If known, how many registered healthcare professionals are currently authorised to work under one or more PGDs within your organisation? Please indicate if this information is not held centrally.

Services are authorised to use PGDs. Authorisation of individual HCPs is completed and held by service leads.

This information is not held centrally.

 

4. What system or process does your organisation currently use to manage PGD governance?

The trust uses options a and b below. All ratified PGD are held on the trust's intranet PGD library. Individual services access PGD from this and keep registers of authorisation either in paper form or in electronic form. 

   a. Paper-based documentation and manual registers

   b. Generic document management software (e.g. SharePoint, shared network drives)

   c. A dedicated PGD management software system — if so, please name the system

   d. Other — please describe

 

5. Please provide the name, job title, and email address of the individual responsible for PGD governance within your organisation. If this is not held centrally, please indicate who would be the most appropriate contact.

Chief Medical Officer (or their Deputy)

Chief Pharmacist (deputised by Lead Pharmacist for Quality & Governance)

The most appropriate contact is via clcht.medicines.managementteam@nhs.net, FAO Lead Pharmacist Quality & Governance

 

6. In the last 12 months, have any PGDs within your organisation expired without a completed review and reauthorisation in place? If so, approximately how many?

No PGDs have expired.