primary provider
preparing for the future
you are going to share available space and associated costs between co- located parties. Pharmacy location and sufficient space within the centre are key considerations from both sides along with, of course, the commercial aspects that need to be mutually beneficial to ensure a sustainable working partnership. At the Mowbray Square Medical Centre in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, a pharmacy shares premises with four practices, with each practice allocated a percentage of the overall area according to its list size, and each giving away a relative proportion to shared space, including that used for the pharmacy. Bills, overheads, service charges and facilities charges are divided between the five parties according to their percentage share. Whatever arrangement is favoured,
joint working between pharmacy and practice staff is crucial. Fauzia Ahmed is a chemist at the pharmacy at the Integrated Care Centre in Oldham, a purpose-built development offering a host of locality-based, patient-focused services, including five GP practices, diagnostics, dental care, and paediatric occupational therapy. “[We] generally work together as a team and we will help practice staff, for example supporting practice nurses with prescriptions and in prescribing,” she says. “Each model will vary on individual working practices but examples include training and shadowing, where practice staff will spend time with the pharmacist in the pharmacy as well as pharmacy staff scheduling surgery visits and attending practice meetings. “These relationships can in turn deliver
service efficiencies with staff having access to GPs and practice managers,” she adds. One example at Oldham is a minor
These relationships can in turn deliver service efficiencies with staff having access to GPs and practice managers
ailments programme, with doctors able to direct patients to pharmacist-led consultations, freeing up GPs’ time and building patient awareness of pharmacy as a valuable healthcare resource. With the government’s revolutionised primary care vision promoting more community- based services and with GPs taking control of commissioning, integration of such resources under one roof may become more common.
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