Practice Pharmacist

Key Responsibilities

Medicines Optimisation.

Lead medicines optimisation work across the practice

• Review prescribing trends and support safe,
• cost effective prescribing
• Provide advice to clinicians on formulary,
• guidelines, and best practice
• Medication Reviews.
• Conduct structured medication reviews SMRs
• Support polypharmacy management and
• de prescribing where appropriate

Identify interactions, contra indications, and

adherence issues

Repeat Prescribing Management.

Oversee repeat prescribing processes and safety checks

• Resolve medication queries from patients,
• clinicians, and dispensary staff
• Support synchronisation, medication switches,
• and prescription rationalisation
• Clinical Support.

Provide clinical advice during patient

• consultations within competence
• Support chronic disease management
• Assist with monitoring, titration, and
• medicines related care plans
• Care Home and High Risk Medicines Work.
• Conduct medication reviews for care home residents
• Support monitoring of high risk medicines
• Ensure safe systems for monitoring, recalls,
• and follow up
• Clinical Governance & Safety.
• Lead medicines safety audits, incident reviews, and quality improvement work
• Support compliance with CQC, NICE, and local
• prescribing guidelines

Maintain uptodate SOPs and contribute to riskmanagement processes

Patient Education & Support.

Provide advice on medication use, side

• effects, and adherence
• Support self management and lifestyle interventions
• Handle escalated patient queries sensitively
• and professionally
• Collaboration with MDT.

Work closely with GPs, NPs, nurses, HCAs, and

dispensary teams

Participate in MDT meetings and contribute to

clinical decision making

Support safe transitions of care and

• medicines reconciliation
• Prescribing.
• Prescribe within scope of competence as an
• Independent Prescriber
• Manage long term condition clinics or medicines focused pathways
• Ensure safe documentation, coding, and follow up
• Data Quality and Reporting.

Ensure accurate coding of medication reviews

• and interventions
• Support QOF, IIF, and prescribing related reporting
• Contribute to audits, dashboards, and
• performance monitoring