GP and Pharmacist Colaboration

by | Dec 14, 2012 | Blog, Community Pharmacy

Collaborative working will help your pharmacy survive  the rocky road ahead and is the key to better patient outcomes and effective medicine management.

To ensure a relationship will blossom it requires a breakdown in silo working, good communication and indeed collaboration built upon trust and symbiosis.
Try to make things easier by communicating with the local practice; it will be less disruptive to your own patients. Start also with GPs: you may have already struck up a rapport.

Try to understand the needs and perceived threat or barriers to collaboration and communication and work on breaking these down. Do not be territorial in your approach.

Your local GP may see you as a threat if you are offering flu jabs to his patients.

Build on mutual respect and communicate any concerns. Invite the GP into your world and show him what services you are offering and why.

Pharmacy consulting can help you with multidisciplinary projects and help to improve communication between your pharmacy and the local GPs and CCGs . Contact [email protected]

 

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