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PCN Service/Medicines Managment

Medicines Management services include, but are not limited to:

  • Medication reviews/reauthorisations

  • Acute prescription requests

  • Reconciling hospital discharges and letters

  • Medication queries

  • Long term disease management clinics

  • Face to Face Clinics

  • Extended access service

  • Triage clinics

  • Liaising with all local pharmacies to ensure optimal medicines management

  • In-house medicines information service

  • Medication Optimisation Audits/Cost savings audits

  • Implementing drug alerts and withdrawals e.g. MHRA alerts

  • Achieving QIPP and QOF targets

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In addition to this, PCD can support the PCN roles ensuring pharmacists meet the requirements set out in the DES criteria such as SMR's, chronic disease management & complex poly-pharmacy reviews etc. (Please refer to NHS England PCN requirements & entitlements contract specification for the full information).

Vitamins And Pills
Handing Out Pills

PCD will provide a fully managed service and be responsible for and lead on:

  • Recruiting a suitably trained and experienced pharmacist

  • Organising the introduction of the pharmacist with the practice

  • Providing support to the practice to redesign any current service needs surrounding

    the pharmacist and liaising with the pharmacist in place already to create an

    effective and manageable workload.

  • Providing any associated documents to support delivery of a pharmacist service

  • Other costs e.g. Indemnity, NI contributions, PAYE costs all taken up by PCD

  • Uninterrupted service with cover provided for planned leave or sick leave where

    possible

  • Up skilling and training to be provided by PCD for our staff