Medicines Management and Optimisation Services
Spectra's skilled and experienced pharmacists and technicians
manage strategic and operational medicines management functions for GP practices,
Clinical Commissioning Groups, and PCT Cluster Commissioning Support Units.
Spectra will deliver specified prescribing improvements or design and deliver bespoke medicines optimisation services
for the NHS and also for the pharmaceutical industry to deliver the medicines management
objectives of organisations and teams.
Strategic and operational medicines management for GP Practices and Clinical Commissioning Groups
- Prescribing analysis, budgetary management and quality improvement
- Delivering the Quality, Innovation, Prevention and Productivity (QIPP) medicines management for GP Practices
- Reducing medication errors and improving prescribing safety
- Clinical guideline development and facilitation of Medicines Formularies for GP Practices and CCGs
- Facilitated solutions to sub-optimal drug therapy to maximise health outcomes
- Improving repeat prescribing through audit and practice staff training
- Prescriber education and academic detailing for prescribers
- Managed introduction of new medicines for CCGs
- Medication based therapy review for patients with long-term conditions
- Anticoagulant monitoring, audit, training and competency assessment
Clinical Commissioning Groups and GP Practices
- Development and delivery of CCG and GP practice medicines management strategies
- Practice specific prescribing improvement plans
- Improving repeat prescribing through audit, feedback and practice staff training
- Academic detailing
- Management of new medicines
- Anticoagulant monitoring and training
- Medication review
- Vascular (health) checks and cardiovascular risk assessment
- Helicobacter pylori near patient testing
- Glucose tolerance and HbA1c testing near patient testing
- Heart failure diagnostics - proBNP near patient testing
Medicines Management training and development
- Repeat prescribing training and competency assessment or GP Practice staff
- Medicines policy and medicines governance training
- Medication review training
- Care home and domiciliary carer training in medicines awareness and administration