We now have many additional roles in the practice to help support clinicians and patients. 

These include:

Clinical Pharmacist

  • Conducts structured medication reviews (SMRs)
  • Independent prescribing/deprescribing
  • Provides medication advice to healthcare professionals and patients
  • Optimises medication (e.g. antibiotic stewardship)
  • Translates medicines national policies into local implementation
  • Adopts a whole system approach to medicines management

Pharmacy Technician

  • Supports Structured Medication Reviews
  • Counsels patients on medicines
  • Manages prescriptions
  • Conducts medicines reconciliation
  • Conducts medicines audits

Social Prescribing Link Worker

  • Connects people to non-medical community-based activities, groups and services that meet practical, social and emotional needs, including specialist advice services and the arts, physical activity and nature
  • Helps people identify issues that affect their health and wellbeing when co-producing a personalised care and support plan

Care Co-ordinator

  • Provides co-ordination and navigation through the health and care systems
  • Facilitates joint working across organisations and MDTs
  • Makes referrals to services and other health and care professionals
  • Helps patients prepare for/follow-up
  • Supports patients to book appointments
  • Signposts patients to information
  • Works in partnership with MDT colleagues including social prescribing link worker

First Contact Physiotherapist

  • Assesses, diagnoses, treats and manages musculoskeletal (MSK) problems
  • Prescribes medication within scope
  • Develops skills relating to injection therapy
  • Performs diagnostic investigations
  • Signposts/refers to health and care services
  • Audits of health and care practice
  • Requests/progresses investigations

Paramedic

  • Assesses and triages calls from patients
  • Performs home visits for urgent assessment
  • Advises and signpost patients
  • Supports anticipatory care plans
  • Manages minor illness

Physician Associate

  • Manages undifferentiated, undiagnosed cases by history taking, physical examinations and clinical decision-making to establish a working diagnosis and management plan
  • While they currently do not have prescribing rights, they can prepare prescriptions for GPs to sign
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