Clinical Pharmacist Support Services
Having a pharmacist on your team WILL save you time and money
About Sanapharm
Sanapharm identified the benefits of employing clinical pharmacists to work in practice over 4 years ago and has been providing medicines optimisation services to practices since 2019.
Working closely with practices over the years has given us insight into the challenges facing general practice, and how our services can best support them. We have reviewed the medicines of over 1 million patients with primary care savings exceeding £5 million.
Sanapharm can provide pharmacist support within your practice to support all medicine optimisation related activity.
Why commission a clinical pharmacist in practice?
Primary care and in particular GP practices are under significant pressure to meet patient demand. The reasons for this include a shortage of GPs, patients living longer and a significant increase in patients living with long term conditions.
Utilising pharmacists to work in practice provides support for the GPs thus freeing up more time for GPs to support the more challenging needs of the patients.
The role of a clinical pharmacist is varied and Sanapharm can develop a bespoke package depending on your practice’s individual needs. We will take into account your patient demographics, prevalance and individual challenges to build an individual support package. This will be carefully monitored to ensure you are getting maximum efficiency from your pharmacist.
Cost / Benefit analysis
As well as freeing up GP time, and in addition to the savings achieved, clinical pharmacists can conduct audits, update policies and many other tasks.
The patients’ perspective
Sanapharm has carefully managed the implementation of pharmacists into practice and engaged with patients.
The evidence so far demonstrates that the development of clinical pharmacists working in GP practices as part of the practice clinical team is welcomed by patients.
In conclusion
Sanapharm can quickly implement a pharmacist into your practice and develop a bespoke package to best support your medicine optimisation needs.
Our services include:
- Face to face and telephone based reviews of patients and their medicines
- Acute medication requests – assessment of suitability of request, or contact patient and arrange review if this is needed (e.g. overuse of benzodiazepines)
- Hospital discharge and outpatient letters – action changes to medication (dose changes, medicines started or stopped)
- Repeat medication re-authorisation – incorporating medication review
- Set up and manage monitored dosage systems requests
- Support long-term condition clinics and develop integrated pharmaceutical care plans for all patients
- Medicine review clinics – patients with complex medication needs have a face-to-face or telephone review. Home visits for this service can be arranged for truly housebound patients
- Medicine related enquiries – stopping unnecessary medicines, advising on additional medicines and up to date monitoring
- Liaise with community and hospital pharmacy colleagues
- A Pharmacist Independent Prescriber can prescribe any licensed or unlicensed medicine within their area of clinical competence
- Liaise with the practice and help to meet LES/DES/QOF
- Handle medication queries from community pharmacie
Next steps
If you would like more information on our services and how we can help support your practice, we offer the following options:
- An informal phone conversation
- An individual or small meeting
- A practice meeting with a presentation on the benefits of pharmacists in practice (ideal for staff meetings)
Commissioning a clinical pharmacist in practice
Patients seen
Med review – 31
Acute – 17
Tasks completed
Rx requests – 83
Letters – 102
Queries
Reception – 21
Clinician – 17
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