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Location
Portsmouth, Hampshire | United Kingdom
Job description
Main responsibilities: Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas. Provide pharmaceutical consultations to patients with long term conditions as an integral part of the multidisciplinary team. Provide proactive leadership on medicines and prescribing systems to the practice team, patients and their carers. Improve patient and carer understanding of, confidence in and compliance with their medication. Provide advice and answer medication related queries from patients and staff Organise and oversee the practices medicines optimisation systems including the repeat prescribing and medication review systems. Work with GP Practices within the PCN to support them with implementation of the PCN DES and day to day general practice. Promote high quality, cost effective prescribing in primary care, supporting the specifications within the PCN DEC, including Structured Medication Reviews, Enhance Health in Care Homes and other medicines optimisation tasks as determined by the PCN/Practice. Process monthly prescriptions for nursing/care homes, checking for changes and adherence/over-ordering issues. Review hospital discharge notifications and outpatient hospital letters and reconcile medication against current repeats, flagging up and correcting discrepancies. Promote safe use of medication, reporting of medicines-related incidents and pro-actively preventing safeguarding incidents. Observe the principles of clinical governance when developing policies, protocols, guidelines, SOPs and procedures.
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