NhsJobs Carnforth

Provide expertise in clinical medicines review and address public health and social needs of patients in GP practices.

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.

Manage patients and health care professionals medicine queries.

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.

Contribute to multimorbidity reviews and multidisciplinary reviews.

Provide medicines information and training to Practice healthcare professionals and admin staff.

Review Pathology results for patients on known medicines.

Act as a source of medicines information for all the practice team and patients (e.g. around doses, side effects, adverse events, possible alternatives e.g. around out of stocks)

Supporting our Women's health lead in delivering menopause medication reviews, ensuring safe and effective evidence based prescribing, to optimise patient outcomes

Job description

Provide expertise in clinical medicines review and address public health and social needs of patients in GP practices.

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.

Manage patients and health care professionals medicine queries.

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.

Contribute to multimorbidity reviews and multidisciplinary reviews.

Provide medicines information and training to Practice healthcare professionals and admin staff.

Review Pathology results for patients on known medicines.

Act as a source of medicines information for all the practice team and patients (e.g. around doses, side effects, adverse events, possible alternatives e.g. around out of stocks)

Supporting our Women's health lead in delivering menopause medication reviews, ensuring safe and effective evidence based prescribing, to optimise patient outcomes

What is the salary for this pharmacist role in Carnforth?

The advertised salary for this pharmacist role at Ash Trees Surgery is Negotiable (per hour). Typical pharmacist pay in Carnforth varies by experience, sector (NHS versus community), and employer; see the PharmSee UK pharmacy salary guide for benchmarks.

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