Blood Matters has developed subcutaneous immunoglobulin (SCIg) clinical practice guidance, including tools and resources to assist Victorian health services implementing SCIg programs.
Resources to use with patients
Do your eligible patients know about SCIg?
Use the Blood Matters conversation starter, or this letter template, to identify eligible patients who may be interested in transitioning to SCIg.
Is your patient planning an overseas holiday?
Our SCIg travel guide will help you prepare any patients who are planning to take their SCIg product on an overseas holiday.
Resources for health services considering a SCIg program
Presentation, flowchart and business case template to help health services get started with SCIg.
SCIg presentation
Blood Matters has produced a PowerPoint presentation, SCIg: getting started. The presentation is intended to be used as an educational tool within health services and can be edited to include information specific to individual organisations.
SCIg flowchart
The SCIg program - Getting started flowchart works with the presentation to help your organisation know if it is SCIg ready.
SCIg business case
Need a SCIg business case? This business case template can be adapted to individual organisations to support the development or expansion of a SCIg program where needed.
Clinical practice guidance template
The clinical practice guidance template has been designed to:
- provide health services with the necessary information to implement a SCIg program.
- assist health services in the development of the necessary governance documents that will facilitate safe administration of SCIg according to the manufacturers’ instructions (product information).
Area specific resources
Area specific resources can be obtained directly from health services. See Blood Matters program contacts page for contact details of SCIg Program coordinators.
A note on the information supplied
All information and templates are examples only and current at the time of publication.
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