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Rushcliffe PCN service

Clinical Pharmacy

PCN pharmacists and pharmacy technicians making sure medicines are appropriate, safe and effective.

Our PCN pharmacists are highly skilled healthcare professionals with expert knowledge of medication, passionate about ensuring that patients are taking medication that is appropriate, safe and effective for them. They work closely with multidisciplinary teams across all of the surgeries in Rushcliffe and our care homes team.

What our pharmacists do

  • Medicines management in practice
  • Management of long-term conditions through regular clinics
  • Advice on systems for safer prescribing
  • Answering patient queries about their medication
  • Supporting the wider clinical team with medication queries
  • Structured medication reviews for patients with long term conditions, in care homes, taking 10 or more medicines, with severe frailty or using potentially addictive pain medicines
  • Clinical governance in practice

Pharmacy technicians

Pharmacy technicians complement clinical pharmacists, community pharmacy, GPs and the wider PCN team. They work under supervision to lead improvements that maximise safe, cost-effective best practice in prescribing.

  • Helping patients get the best from their medicines
  • Patient safety audits
  • On the day queries, synchronising repeat medication and managing out of stock medicines
  • Following up patients recently discharged from hospital, intermediate care and into care homes
  • Continuity of medicines supply for high-risk groups
  • Medication reviews

Working in our team

We pride ourselves on a large, friendly, supportive and proactive pharmacy team, with robust clinical governance overseen by our lead pharmacist and lead GP. Monthly clinical supervision, team meetings and training sessions are well established, with admin and HR support from PartnersHealth. We support professional growth through the clinical pharmacists in general practice pathway and beyond to advanced practice.

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