Peter Culham
I am a vocationally registered GP with a special interest in helping my children grow up. I work fulltime in a moderate sized practice in Hawkes Bay. I have previously sat on DHB and PHO committees but I proved to be ineffective so I resigned. One of my partners volunteered our practice as a pilot site to have a clinical pharmacist embedded as a team member. I have long fet that that pharmacists have bene a grossly underutilised member of the MDT and enthusiastically embraced our new team member (not literally). I have volunteered to explain the new role and to advocate for more widespread use of clinical pharmacists in general practice.
Better than an iPad app.... a Clinical Pharmacist in your practice team Concurrent Workshop Repeated Saturday, 14 June 2014 Start 11:00am Duration: 55mins Room 7 Start 12:05pm Duration: 55mins Room 7 Are you being bombarded with information and evidence based guidelines which are constantly changing? Have you tried everything you can think of and are still failing? What do you do now? Google it? Ask the audience? Phone a friend? Hawke’s Bay has implemented three 0.5 FTE clinical pharmacists into volunteer general practice teams to facilitate evidence based prescribing in primary care. Three different models were trialled to see how this service may be best delivered over a 2 year pilot. All three sites showed a significant benefit from having a clinical pharmacist as part of their general practice team. These results will be discussed along with how the service was implemented and the experience of those involved. Doctors, Nurses … and Pharmacist: Why This Threesome Works Nurses Programme Saturday, 14 June 2014 Start 5:30pm Duration: 30mins Sportsdrome As you see more patients with chronic conditions come through your door every day, how do you best address the growing list of medicines? Wade through best practice guidelines? Google it? Look in MIMS? Phone a friend???? Hawke’s Bay has implemented three 0.5 FTE clinical pharmacists into general practice teams to facilitate evidence based best practice with respect to prescribing in primary care. Three different models were trialled to see how this service may be best delivered. This was a 2 year pilot. All three sites showed a significant benefit from having a clinical pharmacist as part of their general practice team. These results will be discussed along with how the service was set up and implemented.