The Pan London Primary Care Network for Substance Misuse
(PANN)
Summaries of Previous Meetings April 2003-2004
PANN London Meetings occur 3 times a year and usually have a
primary topic (which has been chosen at the preceding meeting).
Alongside this other current issues are discussed.
Developments throughout period:
1. Links with the NTA:
- London NTA Regional leads attend PANN meetings, take part in
the discussions and have presented
2. Links with London Drug & Alcohol Network
(LDAN):
- Chris Ford is a board member of LDAN as PANN chair and brings
the primary care perspective to this Network
3. Mentor email list:
- All current and past mentors for the certificate course are
part of an email list to discuss PANN meetings and future
developments
Previous Meetings
The minutes from most of these forum meetings can be found at
the SMMGP
website's online forum.
June 2003
- Pregnancy in drug users, drug and alcohol using parents: How to
manage and what is happening in London and locally?
- Audit of working in a pregnancy/substance misuse liaison
clinic
- Assessing risk and child protection issues London wide and
locally
October 2003
- Co-morbidity (Dual diagnosis: mental health and substance use):
How to manage and what is happening in London?
- What is available for patients with dual diagnosis your area -
is it adequate and how can we improve available services?
February 2004
- Injectable prescribing in General Practice - the case for and
against.
- What is available for patients who require injectable
prescribing in your area and should it be available in primary
care?
June 2004
- Developing a variable LES for Alcohol Services in London - was
run jointly with LDAN
October 2004
- RCGP/PANN Day on CPD and Appraisal for Doctors working with
Drug Users in London
- The appraisal system needed to be a GPwSI was explained and
there was an opportunity for service practitioners and
commissioners to express the difficulties that they have in
understanding the commissioning of drug services under the nGMS
contract
November 2004
March 2005
- Amphetamines, the scale of the problem, treatment interventions
and using in cocaine treatment
- Prescribing amphetamines in general practice
- A look at how we manage people using amphetamines and whether
they may be a useful treatment for cocaine problems
- Minutes of
meeting (pdf)
June 2005
- Benzodiazepines: the ‘bad guys’ in prescribing – developing
guidance for their use in primary care
- In whom are benzodiazepines useful in general practice?
- Where are we with Shipman?
February 2008