Faiza Meftah
Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation, UK
Title: The Role of Independent Prescribers Pharmacists in Primary and Secondary Care in the United Kingdom
Biography
Biography: Faiza Meftah
Abstract
Clinical pharmacists, as members of multidisciplinary clinical teams, play a pivotal role within different specialities in UK hospitals and primary care setting. Their role extends from a routine review of prescriptions, medicines information, formulary applications, and drug history-taking through medicines reconciliation, assisting prescribers in prescribing decisions, optimising drug therapy, and therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM), to facilitating patient discharge from hospitals, and counselling patients on their medication prior to discharge.