Medicine shortages – How Medacy can help 5

Medicine Shortages during the Covid-19 pandemic

How Medacy Can Help 5

Prescribing repeat medications is a key task for GPs in Primary care and is a cumbersome task at
that! Repeat re-authorisations and routine medication reviews are essential work which take up
valuable GP time. Add in the current medication shortages and the cumbersome becomes a true
nightmare for GPs. Medication shortages are causing no end of extra work at practice level and GPs
are struggling to handle all the medication related queries.

Medicines Shortages – what are your choices?

What are your choices? Well you can make the patients and/or chemists wait and see if stock comes
back in or you can switch the medication to a different strength, if one is available. Or we can change
the prescription to a completely different medication; first question ‘What is available as an
alternative?’ This is just so much hard work; and the poor patients!
Have you, as a GP or Practice Manager, considered that if you had a clinical pharmacist in practice,
they could be handling all this extra work?.

A Medacy Pharmacist – ready made solution for resolving medicines shortages

A clinical pharmacist is ideally placed to review and keep abreast of the medication news and soak
up all the tasks relating to medication shortages. You might just want to explore the Medacy Clinical
Pharmacist Service and see if Medacy can make life easier.
Medacy Clinical Pharmacist Led Services are available on a permanent or temporary basis and can be delivered on-site or remotely,
which is ideal during the Covid-19 pandemic. Medacy will provide an experienced IP pharmacist and
laptop with the relevant Clinical System (TPP S1 or EMIS) and can deal with all your repeat
prescribing and medication queries.

Call Medacy on 01677 252205, email caroline@medacy.co.uk or use the Messenger at the bottom right hand corner of the screen for more information