Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland ICS BOOMERANG
Medicine’s Optimisation Programme
The Eclipse BOOMERANG programme pilot has been activated across the LLR ICB, providing your practice the opportunity to make significant carbon and cost-savings for the region through automated digital engagement with patients eligible for potential medication optimisations. This programme is run through the Eclipse platform.
The pilot project is to optimise patients on Fostair 100/6 MDI to Fobumix 160/4.5 Easyhaler DPI, where clinically appropriate. The eligible patient group has been agreed by local respiratory clinical leads as an asthma cohort for which an inhaler optimisation is low-risk.
Once practice permissions have been completed, your practice will be contacted to arrange the digital patient engagement for your patients. This involves a text to the patient with a link to an informative lander page which explains the benefits of changing their inhaler, and then onto a questionnaire that they can complete to check their current symptom control, express their personal preferences and consent to being switched. Where desired, a CQC-accredited patient engagement team can support non-responders to complete this questionnaire over the telephone.
Patients will be grouped within the Eclipse pathway according to their responses and the next action required e.g. prescription to be generated, further discussion wanted etc. Practice prescribers will have access to the patient cohorts and be able to act on these responses appropriately.
Patients will receive a follow-up text post inhaler optimisation, to prompt them to access a New Medicine Service review by a community pharmacist, and a post-switch questionnaire to ensure that they are getting on well with their new inhaler.
Please note that your practice will be informed before any engagement with your patients and all prescriptions are at the clinical discretion of the practice prescriber.
If your practice would like to take part, please complete the below pro forma with your practice permissions: