Pharmacy Services

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Our PCN Pharmacy Team provide additional support to GP practices with medication queries, clinical audits, clinical documents, and with medication reviews. Pharmacy technicians cannot prescribe or make clinical decisions, but work under pharmacist supervision to ensure effective and efficient use of medicines by both patients and prescribers

The PCN Pharmacy Team’s main roles are: 

• Doing medication reviews with patients to help them get the most effective treatment possible from their medication, as well as offering lifestyle advice. 
• Discussing side effects caused by a medication that the person is taking, and finding a solution, such as changing the medication or dosage.
• Undertaking structured medication reviews for people who are taking multiple medications at the same time. These reviews check all of the patient’s medications, discuss how they are working, and make changes to medications or dosages where appropriate.
• Assisting with vaccination clinics. 
• Running safety audits to ensure patients are undergoing the correct and most effective treatment. 
• Developing guidelines to improve prescribing value and quality.
• Providing educational training and mentorship. 
• Implementing and explaining medication changes.
• Ensuring medication safety for people on high risk medications.