Primary Duties and Areas of Responsibility Patient facing Medication Review Clinics Conduct face-to-face, telephone, domiciliary and virtual (where appropriate) clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with chronic conditions Proactively identify and manage patients with complex polypharmacy Review the on-going need for each medication, ensuring monitoring needs are performed and an opportunity to support patients achieve better health outcomes Reduce inappropriate poly-pharmacy and wasteful prescribing Make appropriate evidence based recommendations Medicines Information Answers relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines. Suggest and recommend solutions using clinical knowledge and trusted pharmaceutical sources Medicine Reconciliation Reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes and working with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post-discharge. To review medications for newly registered patients Medicines Management Support development, revision and implementation of practice medicine related policies helping to improve safety and efficiency Develop and implement ways to improve monitoring of high-risk medication such as anticoagulants, anticonvulsants, and DMARDs, etc Monitor practice prescribing against local guidelines and formulary recommendations Develop prescribing guidelines for use within the Network Review Electronic Repeat Dispensing for appropriate use across all practices Medicine safety Implement changes to medication that result from CAS/MHRA alerts, product withdrawal, and other local/national guidance Develop and implement systems to identify cohorts of patients most likely to be at risk of unplanned admissions and readmissions from medication Collaborating Working Relationships Work collaboratively with the PCN team Develop relationships and work closely with community, hospital and MMT pharmacy colleagues and the wider health system Liaise with other stakeholders for the collective benefit of patients Attend relevant network and practice meetings Education and Training To analyse latest prescribing information and trends and subsequently present this in an appropriate format to clinicians within practices to promote good prescribing practice Provide specialist education to pharmacy colleagues, nursing staff and GPs on aspects of medicines optimisation Complete or be enrolled on the CPPE Primary care pharmacy education pathway working towards independent prescribing qualification. Demonstrate self-development through continuous professional development Implement strategies to support antimicrobial stewardship Participate in weekly Pharmacy team meeting Practice Targets Support practices to deliver on QIPP agenda, QOF and locally commissioned enhanced services To be aware of the prescribing budget and identify and action areas for cost improvement Work with PCN team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved