a. See patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required e.g. diabetes, hypertension, heart failure, or where patients are prescribed large numbers of medicines or combinations with identifiable risks. Review the ongoing medicine plan for these patients, ensuring they get the best use of their medicines and make appropriate recommendations to clinicians for medicine improvement b.
Carry out structured medication reviews for patients identified as priority by the practice or through the PCN DES. This will be provided by face to face and phone appointments and may also involve visiting people in their own homes or in care homes. Although the candidate does not need to be a non-medical prescriber at time of application, they must be willing to work towards this goal and will be supported to achieve this following completion of the CPPE Primary Care Pharmacist Programme. c.
Carry out medicines reconciliations for patients across care boundaries to ensure that our patients get the right medicines in a timely manner with the correct drug monitoring. This will involve liaising with colleagues in secondary care and possibly accessing further support through the community pharmacy discharge medicines scheme or referral to the community services pharmacy teamAnswer prescription and medication queries from patients and staff across the health network. d. Present and lead improvement projects on PCN wide policies and procedures.
e. Contribute to Practice and PCN meetings, GP educational meetings and any other meetings as and when required. f. Support the GP prescribing leads with implementing change, maintaining standards and achieving prescribing targets e.g.
those set through the Devon Medicines Optimisation Scheme and Impact and Investment Fund. g. Liaise with community pharmacy colleagues to align cross sector initiatives e.g. GPCPCS, eRD.
h. Complete and communicate audits to ensure a culture of continual quality improvement i. Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance. j.
Support the PCN pharmacy technicians working within Honiton Surgery k. Document all work in a thorough and timely way in the practice patient management system - SystmOne. l. Advise and support with queries regarding medication storage and transportation including vaccines.
m. Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance. n. Identification of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared practice computer searches.
This might include risks that are patient related, medicine related, or both. o. Support the delivery of QOF, incentive schemes, QIPP and other quality or cost effectiveness initiatives. p.
Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimization. q. Work with the general practice team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved. r.
To support public health, including vaccination campaigns. To provide specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the general public

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