New Clinical Pharmacist joins us

New Clinical Pharmacist Shaina Thakrar




"I qualified from the University of Nottingham in 2014 and completed training as an Independent Prescriber in 2018, with a keen interest in diabetes.

My role as a Clinical Pharmacist in the practice is a varied and expanding! I deal with prescription and medication queries, see patients for medication reviews and help with the management of long-term conditions.
When I am not at work, I enjoy going to the gym and spending time with my family and friends."




We welcome Shaina to this new role to help us develop our services to patients and high standard of clinical care. Pharmacists are extremely valuable at this time of increasing pharmaceutical complexity, with many new drugs being developed and patients taking more diverse mixtures of drugs as the treatments for long term conditions become ever more sophisticated. She will also be helping us with changes to medication following hospital discharges and other areas of risk and will help us develop new services.  Safety is paramount and having someone with Shaina's skills and knowledge is a real boon for us and our patients.

Some of you will be seeing Shaina for reviews of repeat medication and long term conditions - sometimes at home in the case of housebound people - and we're sure you will appreciate her care.

The post is part of an NHS initiative to introduce Clinical Pharmacists to primary care and we are sharing the project with our Harness Federation.

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