Clinical Pharmacists

Clinical pharmacists work in primary care in a patient facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using their expert knowledge of medicines.

Clinical pharmacists work in primary care in a patient facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using their expert knowledge of medicines. They will be prescribers, or if not, are working to complete an independent prescribing qualification following completion of an approved 18-training pathway or equivalent. They work with and alongside the general practice team, taking responsibility for patients with chronic diseases and undertaking structured medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy, especially for the elderly, people in care homes and those with multiple comorbidities.

Read more on the NHS England website

Training Pathways

Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway information can be found on the Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education website. This includes information about supervision on the pathway, including supervisor training requirements and information for employers.

For general information, including supervision, the NHS England website has a useful summary.

Clinical Pharmacists have the option to go to complete an Masters in Advanced Practice. For more information click here.

If you are already working at an advanced level of practice, there is a process for formal recognition of this. Please see the expression of interest form for joining the Centre for Advancing Practice ePortfolio (supported) Route. You might also be interested in the RPS advanced credentialing support programme from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) and CPPE.

You can contact england.advancedpractice@nhs.net with queries.

Supervision

If you have an interest in supervision, to find out more about your Practice or PCN hosting undergraduate pharmacy students from Kings College London. Kings College London provide training in supervision skills and you can also access the London Multi-professional Educator Course.

Multi-professional mentoring is available free of charge through SELWDH - click here for more information.

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