PCN Pharmacist

Key Duties and Responsibilities 1. Plan Clinics Manage own case load. Do the necessary checks for QOF and Enhanced services, entering the data correctly on the computer system. Implement improvements to the patients medication and prescribing independently where necessary. 2. Manage patients holistically Where patients have more than one condition; reviewing co-morbidities in the same appointment and updating QOF and Enhances services as appropriate. Referring to other members of the Primary Health Care team and Secondary Care as necessary. 3. Medication reviews Undertake structured medication reviews with patients with multimorbidity and polypharmacy and implement own prescribing changes (as an independent prescriber) and order relevant monitoring tests. Provide a telephone support for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines and deliver medicines reconciliation from secondary care recommendations. 4. Pathology Request and manage the results for the cohort of patients under your care in a safe and timely way. 5. Medicines safety and quality improvement Identify and provide leadership on areas of prescribing requiring improvement. Conduct own audits and improvement projects and work with colleagues. Present results and provide leadership on suggested change. Demonstrate continuous QI activity focused upon prescribing safety as specified in the QOF guidance. This work for example might include deliver against the prescribing indicators in the Impact Investment Fund (IIF). Contribute to national and local research initiatives. 6. Service development Develop and manage new services that are built around new medicines or NICE guidance, where new medicine/recommendations allow the development of a new care pathway. 7. Care Quality Commission Provide leadership to the practice manager and GPs to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved as part of the regulatory role of this position. 8. Meetings Attend MDT, PCN and Practice meetings as required. Being prepared to contribute to PCN pharmacy issues as appropriate. 9. Relationships To foster and maintain good relationships between, within and outside the Practices involved in the PCN. 10. Population and Public Health To devise and manage population and public health campaigns to run within the network if required. 11. Medicine information to practice staff and patients Answer all medicine related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff and patients with queries about medicines. Suggesting and recommending solutions. Providing follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes. 12. Flexibility To understand that this is a new and evolving role which may change with the needs of the PCN. To be willing to change and the facilitate change in others and the system to promote quality care. 13. Implementation of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations Monitor practice prescribing against the local health economies RAG list for medicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or subject to shared care (amber drugs). Liaise directly with hospital colleagues where prescribing needs to be returned to specialists. Assist practices in setting and maintaining a practice formulary that is hosted on the practices computer system. Auditing practices compliance against NICEs technology assessment guidance. Provide newsletters on important prescribing messages to improve prescribers knowledge and work with the team to develop and implement other techniques known to influence implementation of evidence such as audit and feedback.