Prescriptions Clerk - Melton Mowbray, United Kingdom - Latham House Medical Practice

Latham House Medical Practice

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Melton Mowbray, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Main responsibilities are:

Repeat Prescriptions To provide a 48-hour service for all repeat medication requests by using SystmOne, following the practice protocol for repeat prescribing To remind registered GPs on timeliness of medicine reviews and act on instructions given To liaise with all pharmacies, hospitals, primary health care teams, nursing and residential homes as required to fulfil repeat prescriptions requests and alterations (or any other organisation or services from time to time) To maintain all prescription logs, as required for returns to the Prescription Pricing Authority To keep up to date with all legislation and changes as required for PPA/FHSA returns To work with other specialist health providers within Latham House to prepare and provide a repeat prescription service (e.g., drug counsellors) Acute Prescriptions To follow the Practice procedures for informing doctors of patients who are requiring an acute prescription and issuing the acute prescription with the appropriate query note.

Administration To carry out all administrative, call and recall systems identified as being able to be performed through repeat prescription protocols and in conjunction with other team members within the Practice (e.g., drug monitoring) To update records upon receipt of hospital and clinic letters, medicines use reviews from pharmacists, or online repeat prescription requests any complex queries to be passed to the practice pharmacy team for actioning To regularly check AccuRx and the dedicated prescriptions email inbox and action requests and queries appropriately To maintain the smooth running of the department during holidays and sickness absence To encourage and increase the number of patients who are using the Practices online repeat ordering systems (e.g.

Airmid and NHS apps, prescriptions email address, Engage Consult) See attached job description for full details