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Episode 15 – Karen Acott – a pharmacist partner explains

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Wow! What an inspiring podcast we have this week as Ben talks to pharmacist Karen Acott. Karen was the country’s first ever pharmacist partner in a GP practice in 2004 and is now Chairman of a major GP federation in Devon. She tells Ben about the value to a practice of employing a pharmacist and provides inspiration to all professionals working in primary care.

Show Notes

Karen explains how she started out on her career (43secs)

The first pharmacist to be appointed as a partner (2mins 30secs)

Karen describes how she created the new role of pharmacist partner (2mins 49secs)

Advice for practices thinking of appointing a pharmacist (3mins 57secs)

Selling the business case for investing in a pharmacist (5mins 14secs)

The advantages of independent prescribers (6secs 20secs)

Training independent prescribers (6mins 58secs)

Independent prescribers are out there (7mins 33secs)

Karen was Pharmacy Professional of the Year in 2012 (8mins 08secs)

Cuts to community pharmacy and the Pharmacy Integration Fund (8mins 30secs)

The uneasy relationship between community pharmacies and GP practices (11mins 07secs)

Karen is chair of an 82 practice GP federation in Devon (12mins 47secs)

What is the federation delivering? (14mins 24secs)

Operating at scale in the future (15mins 18secs)

Advice for other pharmacists (16mins 20secs)


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