Pharmacy Team

Clinical Pharmacists

Clinical pharmacists are increasingly working as part of general practice teams. They are highly qualified experts in medicines and can help people in a range of ways. This includes carrying out structured medication reviews for patients with ongoing health problems and improving patient safety, outcomes and value through a person-centred approach.

Pharmacy Technicians

Pharmacy technicians support the Practice Pharmacist to ensure the delivery of safe, effective and efficient systems for repeat prescribing, medicines optimisation, reducing medicines waste and maximising patient outcomes.

The role includes:

• Supporting clinical medication reviews and medicines management
• Participating in the daily preparation of repeat prescriptions in order to ensure high quality, safe and timely repeat prescribing
• Medicines reconciliation
• To provide advice to GPs, staff and patients in changes to prescribing in order to support the improvement of prescribing safety
• Medication reviews
• Control of medicines stocks