Clinical Pharmacy Services
Cardrona Doctors offers access to a Clinical Pharmacist as part of our general practice team. Georgia Bell, Clinical Pharmacist, works alongside our GPs and nurses to support the safe and appropriate use of medicines as part of your overall healthcare, as well as helping maintain the smooth running of the practice.
While your community pharmacist (chemist) is an excellent resource for individual medicines and dispensing, a clinical pharmacist works within your GP practice with access to your full health record — allowing for a more complete review of how all your medicines work together for your overall health.
You can book a dedicated appointment with Georgia to review and discuss your medications. These appointments are designed to help you better understand your treatment plan and ensure your medicines remain appropriate, safe, and practical for you.
You may wish to book an appointment if you:
- Take multiple medicines and would like a review.
- Have questions about side effects, interactions, funding of medications or dosing.
- Have recently started, stopped, or changed a medication.
- Have been discharged from hospital, and have medication changes as a result.
- Would like a general medication check.
Georgia has a particular interest in supporting patients with long-term conditions such as heart failure and diabetes, including reviewing treatment plans, checking monitoring requirements, and helping optimise medicines in partnership with your GP.
Clinical pharmacy appointments may include medication reviews, considering deprescribing (reducing or stopping medicines that may no longer be needed) where appropriate, optimising medications based on cardiovascular risk, sexual health medicines (including PrEP — pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV prevention) and working to improve medication safety based on your overall health picture. This may involve considering new diagnoses, the results of blood tests, scans and more.
Georgia also liaises with local community pharmacies to support continuity of care.
All prescribing decisions remain with your GP. Our overall aim is to create a collaborative environment between the practice and other healthcare providers you may engage with (such as your community pharmacy, specialists, physiotherapists, dietitians, psychologists, and more).
Medication review
To arrange a medication review, please contact reception and request a Clinical Pharmacist appointment.