Clinical Services
Working closely with GPs to provide medicine related updates and helping with problem solving. Provide a point of contact for the practice for all medicines-related queries for healthcare professionals as well as patients. Face to face mediation review of patients with polypharmacy especially for older people, people in residential care homes and those with multiple co-morbidities. Carrying out structured medicines-optimisation reviews in our care homes.
Prescription Management
To support GPs and other practice staff to deliver on Medicines Optimisation agenda (Prescribing Quality Scheme), QOF and locally commissioned enhanced services. To encourage, support and implement adherence to local formulary guidelines and cost-effective prescribing. Reviewing, issuing, and converting acute medicine requests into repeat medicines, where appropriate. Implementing and monitoring a practices adherence to a repeat prescription policy.
Audit and Education
Conducting clinical audits as part of the multidisciplinary team. Answering medicine information enquiries from GPs, other healthcare professionals and patients. Implementing, in conjunction with the practice team, systems for monitoring medicines use. Contributing to clinical education of other healthcare professionals. Providing leadership of quality improvements programmes that involve medicines.
Medicines Management
Contributing to repeat prescribing safety i.e. prompting patients for reviews, blood tests, monitoring etc. Working with the multidisciplinary team to improve medicines management and safety within the practice including updating, writing and ensuring compliance with practice policies. To support the Practice Nurse Manager with updating stock lists and ensuring safe and efficient processes are in place for storage, monitoring, record keeping and waste management of all medicines within the practice. Working with the ICB Medicines Optimisation Team and Practice Team to manage local formularies to improve the choice and cost effectiveness of medicines. Implementing NICE guidance through audit and feedback, formulary management and educational sessions with the wider primary healthcare team and patients.
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