Clinical Pharmacists – exploring the scope, capabilities, and potential of this evolving NHS role

Pharma Market Access Insights - from Mtech Access

What roles and responsibilities do Clinical Pharmacists have in the NHS? How can Pharma and Medtech engage Clinical Pharmacists, and how can industry best support these new decision-makers?
Tom Clarke (Director, Mtech Access) explores all this and more with Tom Kallis (Senior Clinical Pharmacist, East Cornwall PCN).

They explore the origins of the Clinical Pharmacist role and how it has become a key part of the primary care landscape, to understand how the responsibilities of those in the role have been growing. They discuss examples of specific, surprising, ways in which Clinical Pharmacists are expanding their skillsets and doing far more than just medicines use reviews and signing off prescriptions.

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Chapters

1. How has the clinical pharmacist role evolved? (00:04:32)

2. Has there been a need to build trust in the capabilities of clinical pharmacists? (00:07:00)

3. Are your team of pharmacists individually attached to each practice or do they have cross PCN responsibilities? (00:08:23)

4. Can you share a couple of examples of the slightly different, more surprising things that you are doing, that maybe our audience would not automatically think would be the remit of a pharmacist team? (00:09:57)

5. Is MDT working more prominent than maybe it once? (00:16:19)

6. Are clinical pharmacists now indispensable to primary care? (00:17:55)

7. What are the factors that influence your decisions around what areas to focus on? (00:19:32)

8. Are you starting to look at aligned pathways and payments across a whole pathway of care (working with mental health providers, your acute trusts, third-sector organisations) (00:23:27)

9. How are you interacting with community pharmacy now, and how is that relationship evolving? (00:26:02)

10. How much of a gap is there between policy and practice? (00:32:08)

11. What are the biggest challenges that you face as clinical pharmacists? (00:34:03)

12. What professional support is there for clinical pharmacists in primary care? (00:38:11)

13. Is there a national, or even regional, sense of community among clinical pharmacists, or are you working in isolation within your own organisations? (00:41:20)

14. How can industry support clinical pharmacists with professional development and networking? (00:43:01)

15. What level of autonomy do you think PCNs might get in decisions around prescribing? (00:45:17)

16. Do you see pharmacy as potentially a winner or loser in the battle for integrated funding? (00:47:33)

17. Do you foresee any particular trends in regards to prescribing? (00:49:50)

18. How are national initiatives / national procurements received in practice, locally? (00:53:37)

19. What is the key to successful engagement with you and your peers? (00:58:22)