Thanks for all the advice.
Geoff, the T34 is used predominantly in palliative care - as you indicated with the smilie the patient will not be bringing the pump back themselves.
The community stores are not part of the Acute Trust, however they provide the service that ensures there are pumps available within the Acute Trust. If a patient is on an end of life care pathway and prescribed one of these syringe pumps, in theory at least the Community Equipment store database is updated.
Also, the patient may be moved to either:
Home (District Nurse responsibility to update database)
Hospice
Nursing Home
This would rely on staff updating the database - if this is not done then the syringe pump is effectively missing.
There may be a way forward that came to light yesterday indirectly via this forum and is currently being investigated -if sucessful I will share it with you.
Thanks again
Mark
