The Pharmacy team aims to have a presence in every practice. Whilst most time can be spent doing practice based work, some time is needed to hit PCN targets provided below. It’s providing these targets that enables us to continue to employ the pharmacy team. All ultimately will become prescribers and will pass through CPPE.
They come together monthly under Dr Iqbal and Mr Davies guidance to share learning.
Funding Source
ARRS funding
Extra topped up by IIF
PCN Management Llead
Mrs Lin Murray
PCN Overall Accountable Person (CD or Deputy CD)
Dr Lunn (Clinical Director)
Team Lead
Medicine Lead Appraisals and Practice Business – Paul Davies
Training and Development – Dr Naeem Iqbal
Individuals Team Members Supervision / Education
Day to day work, annual leave – largely through practice
HR and pay via PCN Management lead
Monthly catch up with Dr Iqbal and Paul Davies +/- Dr Lunn to look at metrics
Monthly educational catch up
Areas of Responsibility
Pharmacy component of IIF – full remit to be decided
Practice defined medicines management
CPPE completion
Emergency staffing of vaccination drives for pandemic illness
Metrics needed
SMR targets and CVD Targets TBD
A PCN is required to:
a. use appropriate tools to identify and prioritise the PCN’s Patients who would benefit from a structured medication review (referred to in this Network Contract DES Specification as a “SMR”), which must include patients:in care homes;
- with complex and problematic polypharmacy, specifically those on 10 or more medications;
- on medicines commonly associated with medication errors;
- with severe frailty who are particularly isolated or housebound
- patients, or who have had recent hospital admissions and/or falls
- using one or more potentially addictive medications from the following groups: opioids, gabapentinoids, benzodiazepines and z-drugs;
b. offer and deliver a volume of SMRs determined and limited by the PCN’s clinical pharmacist capacity, and the PCN must demonstrate reasonable ongoing efforts to maximise that capacity;
c. ensure invitations for SMRs provided to patients explain the benefits of, and what to expect from SMRs;
d. ensure that only appropriately trained clinicians working within their sphere of competence undertake SMRs. The PCN must also ensure that these professionals undertaking SMRs have a prescribing qualification and advanced assessment and history taking skills, or be enrolled in a current training pathway to develop this qualification and skills;
e. clearly record all SMRs within GP IT systems;
f. actively work with its ICB in order to optimise the quality of local prescribing of:
i. antimicrobial medicines;
ii. medicines which can cause dependency;
iii. metered dose inhalers, where a lower carbon device may be appropriate;
iv. nationally identified medicines of low priority
g. work with community pharmacies to connect patients appropriately to the New Medicines Service which supports adherence to newly prescribed medicines;
h. in complying with this section 8.1.14.b, have due regard to NHS England guidance on Structured Medication Reviews and Medicines Optimisation
Who leads on team metrics
Dr Lunn and Dr Iqbal
Staff Place of work / Practice
Paul Davies – Pharmacist Stephenspn Park
Habib Jiwa – Pharmacist Stephenson Park
Hassnan Khan – Pharmacist Stephenson Park
Maxine Richardson – Pharmacy Technician Stephenson Park
Sohaib Iqbal – Pharmacist Swarland
Barbara Aslett – Pharmacist Mallard
Jasmine Opie – Pharmacist Wideopen
Lisa Ayton-Brown – Pharmacist Woodlands
Ashleigh Boyes – Pharmacist Lane End
Dawn Robertshaw – Pharmacy Technician Wellspring
Kristine Turner – Pharmacist West Farm
Sarah Hamilton – Pharmacy Technician West Farm
Caitlyn Madden – Pharmacist (on sabbatical) Wellspring
Pre Reg Pharmacists
