Pharmacy Technicians

Pharmacy Technicians are highly qualified in managing common problems relating to medicines. They work closely with the Clinical Pharmacists and other members of the multi-disciplinary practice and PCN teams to ensure you are able to get the best from your medicines.

Some examples of the role’s pharmacy technicians play include:

• Carry out medication safety audits supporting safe prescribing and monitoring.
• Managing medication monitoring for a number of high risk medicines and long term conditions
• Review and management of national safety alerts, ensuring these are actioned in a timely way, working with the surgery teams, to help keep our patients safe.
• Support and lead on a variety of quality improvement projects.
• Supporting the management of medicines for patients in care homes.
• Pharmacy technician level medication reviews – general reviews as well as medication specific reviews
• Answering medicine related queries from patients and other members of the practice team.
• Dealing with discharge and outpatient letters from secondary care settings, ensuring any changes to your medication are updated accurately and appropriately on your GP record.
• Supporting prescribing teams in managing repeat prescriptions, from answering queries to helping to set up appropriate processes.
• All of our pharmacy technicians undertake a primary care pharmacy education pathway (or equivalent) when first in post, to ensure their skills are up to date and relevant for the needs of our patients.