Minerva Pharmacy Team
We have a team of 5 Clinical Pharmacists and 3 Pharmacy Technicians working across the PCN.
Minerva Pharmacy team are integral members of practice teams and focus on improving value and outcomes from medicines and consult with and treat patients directly.
This includes providing extra help to manage long-term conditions, advice for those on multiple medicines and better access to health checks. The role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and ensuring patient safety.
Typically, the Practice Pharmacist deal with:
- Carrying out Clinical Medication Review either on the phone or face to face.
- Reviewing patients on complex medicine regimens
- Medications Reconciliation – for example, if a patients goes into hospital, when they are discharged, there is usually a lot of work is required to update patients medication records with new and adjusted medications. The pharmacy team carry out this work and ensure patient medication records are fully reconciled and up to date.
- In-house experts on medicines who deal with and resolve queries for repeat and acute medications
- Support with managing and prescribing long term conditions
- Deal with medicine recall and safety alerts.
Pharmacy Technicians support Practice Pharmacists with medication queries and changes