The role spans the following areas; Reduce inappropriate polypharmacy and wasteful prescribing through clinical medication review Reconcile medicines following hospital discharge and work with patients and community Pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge Contribute to reductions in medicine related hospital admissions and readmissions by supporting patients to get the best outcomes from their medicines and identifying and addressing medicines related issues Interface with community and hospital Pharmacy colleagues and develop referral processes between primary care professionals including the promotion of the repeat dispensing service Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions and medicines reaching review dates Support the Practices and PCN in achieving QOF and IIF targets and other quality initiatives related to prescribing Manage patients medicine queries and educate patients on their medicines, promoting self-management and adherence Provide specialist advice and support to GPs, nurses, and other healthcare professionals on medication-related issues. Increase quality and safety of prescribing through mechanisms such as audit and PDSA cycles Manage Practice formularies to improve the quality, safety and cost effectiveness of prescribing Implement drug withdrawals and alerts e.g. MHRA aimed at improving medicines safety Work with primary care professional and patients to implement NICE and other evidence based guidelines and prescribing policies, in line with local and national recommendations Run clinics where medicines are the main interventions e.g. anticoagulant monitoring clinics.
Contribute to multi-morbidity reviews and multidisciplinary reviews Provide medicines information and training to Practice healthcare professionals and admin staff Review daily Pathology results for patients on known medicines Act as a source of medicines information for all the Practices teams and patients (e.g. around doses, side effects, adverse events, possible alternatives e.g. around out of stocks) Undertake minor ailments triage: dealing with minor ailments and triaging patients appropriately Undertake Structured Medication Reviews (SMRs) for the required patient cohorts Support the wider Practice/PCN multidisciplinary teams to deliver NHS vaccination services (e.g. Flu, Covid-19 vaccinations etc.) to the PCN populatio

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