Practice Based Clinical Pharmacists and Pharmacist Prescribers


Practice Based Clinical Pharmacists


The Clinical Pharmacist is based in a particular medical centre/s as an integral part of the primary care team to provide clinical guidance, assistance and support around medication, with a focus on reducing inequities and working with priority populations. 

  • Advise and support whānau understanding and experience of medication treatment, how it can affect their health and wellbeing – including lifestyle, impacts on adherence, and issues that may occur with administering medications,  

  • Undertake individual complex medication reviews to optimise medicine use for a patient, 

  • Provide a medication information resource for the clinical team, 

  • Contribute to improved population health by providing inhouse education, bulletins and quality improvement activities within the medical centre. 

Practice Based Clinical Pharmacists – Pharmacist Prescribers

Some of our clinical pharmacists are also prescribing pharmacists who support the management of long-term conditions through initiation, titration, continuation of prescribed treatments, or deprescribing. The Clinical Pharmacist Prescriber is an advanced pharmacy role to promote health, prevent disease, treat known diagnosis, assess and manage people’s health needs. It includes prescribing in a supportive environment to increase the capability and capacity of the practice team and overall aims to: 

  • Improve healthcare access to the practice population,   

  • Support new models of care,   

  • Provide convenient healthcare service,   

  • Promote and develop interdisciplinary teamwork keeping the patient in the centre of care,    

  • Build on existing skills and knowledge within the centre,    

  • Take accountability for prescribing decisions based on diagnosed long-term and common conditions.