Our Practice Pharmacists work with patients to ensure that they are using the most effective medication and use it appropriately to manage long and short term conditions. They also manage requests for repeat medications, and review repeat medication regimes for patients on an annual basis. Our Pharmacists are expert medication specialists and provide advice to our other clinical staff on the most appropriate prescribing options.

Practice Pharmacists are available for consultations with some patients who have complex chronic diseases or if you have a query about the medication you are taking.

To undertake medicines reconciliation in accordance with practice protocols and to update patients medical records or prescribing accordingly.

Support the Practice team with queries relating to prescription requests and looks for ways to improve the efficiency and safety of the prescription issuing process, ensuring queries are resolved and scripts issues in line with the timeframe in the practice procedure.

Review ‘outpatient’ letters which include changes to drug treatment and make changes to patients repeat medication list as appropriate.