Development of a modular programme delivering clinical prioritisation skills for experienced Band 5/6 medicines management technicians in both an acute and mental health setting.

Local delivery of clinical pharmacy services in both WSHT and SPFT, is a well-established multidisciplinary approach divided between clinical pharmacists and medicines management technicians, with clinical assistant support. 

Whilst well established and respected, medicines management roles are usually limited to drug history taking and referral to pharmacists for reconciliation and targeted counselling of high-risk medicines. Clinical prioritisation skills are essential for all professional pharmacy team members to enable targeted clinical pharmacy services to patients. 
Drivers for change are twofold; increasingly complex patients with co-morbid health issues; and a need to release pharmacist time to directly influence prescribing choices and utilising their independent prescribing skills for safe prescribing and deprescribing initiatives. 
The current ceiling in formal training for medicines management technician development available locally has limited advanced development of experienced technicians. 

Development of a modular programme delivering clinical prioritisation skills for experienced Band 5/6 medicines management technicians in both an acute and mental health setting.

The expected output from this project includes an appropriately skilled group of pharmacists and technicians, working alongside expert patients, to develop this programme. 
Creating a team and resource to develop the programme will pump-prime the opportunity for this local course delivery, ultimately, improve patient outcomes by concentrating on and identifying specific clinical parameters and high-risk medicines that should be monitored / reviewed closely.