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Medicines Optimisation Services for GP Practices and PCNs
Deliver safer prescribing, improve patient outcomes, and reduce medicines waste with expert medicines optimisation support.
Improve patient outcomes through safer, more effective prescribing
Reduce medication errors and adverse drug reactions
Lower prescribing costs and minimise medicines waste
What is Medicines Optimisation?
Medicines optimisation is a patient-centred approach to ensuring people get the best outcomes from their medicines. It focuses on safe prescribing, improving adherence, reducing waste, and supporting better decision-making in primary care.
Medicines optimisation services play a vital role in supporting GP practices and PCNs to deliver safer, more effective care.
Medicines optimisation is defined as a holistic approach that considers clinical effectiveness, safety, patient experience, and cost-effectiveness when prescribing and managing medicines.
Medicines optimisation, sometimes referred to as medication optimisation or medicine optimisation, ensures medicines are prescribed and used effectively to achieve the best possible patient outcomes. It focuses on safety, evidence-based prescribing, and patient needs, going beyond traditional medicines management, which focuses more on processes such as procurement and distribution.
Why Medicines Optimisation Matters for GP Practices and PCNs
Medicines optimisation goes beyond prescribing – it ensures medicines are used safely, effectively, and efficiently. This improves patient care, reduces risks, and helps providers meet regulations while managing costs.
- Better Patient Outcomes – Optimised medicines lead to fewer complications, improved symptom control, and better overall health. Effective medicines optimisation ensures patients receive the most appropriate treatments while reducing avoidable risks.
- Enhanced Safety – Medicines optimisation reduces medication errors and adverse drug reactions by ensuring prescriptions are appropriate, regularly reviewed, and aligned with patient needs.
- Improved Efficiency and Cost Savings – Medicines optimisation helps minimise medicine waste, improve prescribing efficiency, and ensure healthcare resources are used more effectively across GP practices and PCNs.
- Regulatory Compliance – Supports healthcare providers in meeting NHS and NICE guidelines, maintaining high clinical standards while delivering safer, more effective patient care.
Medicines Optimisation Services We Provide
We support GP practices, PCNs, and federations with practical, results-driven medicines optimisation solutions designed to improve patient care and reduce workload.
Our Key Services:
- Medication Reviews and Audits – We conduct comprehensive medication reviews and clinical audits to identify inefficiencies, reduce medicines waste, and improve prescribing accuracy and patient outcomes.
- Structured Medication Reviews (SMRs) – Supporting patients with complex needs through structured medication reviews that improve safety, adherence, and overall treatment effectiveness.
Polypharmacy and High-Risk Medication Management – Managing complex medication regimes to reduce risk, improve safety, and ensure appropriate prescribing for patients with multiple conditions.- Medicines Reconciliation After Discharge – Ensuring medicines are accurately reviewed and aligned following hospital discharge, reducing risk and improving continuity of care.
- Clinician Support – Our expert clinicians provide direct support, ensuring safer prescribing, better medication use, and improved patient outcomes through targeted medication optimisation.
- Training and Education – We equip healthcare teams with the latest best practices in medicines management, helping them deliver more effective and safer care.
- Compliance and Governance – Our services help providers stay aligned with NHS and NICE guidelines, ensuring regulatory compliance and high-quality patient care.
Key Principles of Medicines Optimisation
Medicines optimisation is guided by a number of core principles that ensure safe, effective, and patient-centred care across primary care settings.
Patient-centred care – focusing on individual patient needs, preferences, and outcomes
Evidence-based prescribing – using the best available clinical evidence to guide treatment decisions
Safety and risk reduction – identifying and reducing medication-related risks and adverse drug reactions
Reducing unnecessary medicines – supporting deprescribing and avoiding over-medication where appropriate
Improving adherence – helping patients take medicines correctly to maximise effectiveness
Why Partner with Core Prescribing Solutions?
We work closely with GP practices and PCNs to deliver tailored medicines optimisation services that improve patient outcomes, enhance safety, and reduce workload.
We are dedicated to transforming medicines optimisation into a strategic advantage for healthcare providers. Our approach goes beyond standard medicines management-we work in partnership with PCNs, GP federations, and practices to develop tailored, data-driven solutions that enhance patient safety, improve prescribing efficiency, and drive long-term healthcare sustainability.
How We Support Healthcare Providers:
- Collaborative Approach – We integrate seamlessly with healthcare teams, providing specialist support, medicines audits, and clinical reviews to improve prescribing and patient outcomes.
- Customised Strategies – Every healthcare provider has unique needs, so we develop tailored medicines optimisation plans that align with their clinical and operational goals.
- Proven Impact – Our solutions have delivered measurable improvements in patient care, safety, and cost efficiency, ensuring optimal medicine use while reducing waste.
Why Choose Us?
- Expert-Led Solutions – Our experienced team bring specialist knowledge in medicines management and regulatory compliance.
- Results-Driven Approach – We focus on enhancing patient safety, improving adherence, and reducing costs through data-driven optimisation.
- End-to-End Support – From medication reviews to compliance audits
Maximise Medicines Efficiency – Let’s Work Together
What do Practice Managers say about our Clinical Services?
After several pitched presentations Core Prescribing Solutions were unanimously chosen…
We have been working with the team at Core Prescribing Solutions (CPS) for months now. After several pitched presentations CPS were unanimously chosen.
At our practice the clinical pharmacists are now an integral part of our team. We have recently done a focused piece of work involving both the management team and clinical pharmacists at Core Prescribing Solutions and our colleagues at ECLIPSE and ICB where the collaborative working that we at our practice have completed with the support of CPS has delivered excellent results in our completed SMRs. We are currently ranked 1st for total % SMR for polypharmacy. The ethos of CPS is all about being positive, working collaboratively and delivering on results and safety and influencing patient outcomes. I would recommend that any surgery take up the opportunity of working this talented group of pharmacists who are always ready to help and are also sensitive to recognise the individuality of GP surgeries and work in a way that is right for the practice and work collaboratively to face any challenges as a team and influencing and changing patient outcomes for the future.
S Child (Practice Manager)
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Phone: 01274 442076
Email: info@coreprescribingsolutions.co.uk
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