Pharmacists for a GP appointment.

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Not complaining but a lovely Pharmacist assessed my DD1 20 today and referred her on as he wasn't qualified. Is this the norm?

Depends on what her issue is and why she went.
The clinical pharmacists can deal with lots of health issues and chronic conditions (CVD, Hypertension, Diabetes etc) but if it’s something she’s mentioned that they are not qualified to deal with then it’s not unusual for them to refer to the GP.

I mean it depends what's wrong with her then I'd imagine would tell her to go to the gp,

It's because surgeries have been funded to have all sorts of professionals that aren't GPs.

A lot of problems need a GP but they aren't being funded.

Our GP has just put this on Facebook

Per annum?

She has pain in her ankle so he did prescribe anti inflammatories and referred her to a physiotherapist at the practice next week.

TBH that's fair. Ankle pain is totally a physio thing and a GP would probably do the same.

What else were you hoping the pharmacist would do?

That's normal really what else could they have done ?

Was just asking why Pharmacists were working in the Drs now and not what he did as I had no complaints.

It sounds like she was referred to the right pathway. Pharmacists can prescribe some things now so I think it was reasonable to go there first. Obviously if it seemed broken etc then you'd go to A&E.

Probably because they have a GP shortage our surgery is made up of all sorts of HCP nurses paramedics pharmacist they are trying to say its more community based but I think surgeries are lacking in GPs.

Clinical prescribing pharmacists cannot deal with chronic disease with any degree of expertise

I had my asthma review with a pharmacist last year, it was still done at the health centre, I was worried as it wasn't our local one but ,he was lovely

There is not a GP shortage.

Surgeries are being given money to employ anybody but a GP. So they are just to get through the demand.

The primary care pharmacists have some different training to the ones in your local pharmacy although the thought is to give some of this training whilst at university.

Our band 7 pharmacists were great at doing complex medication reviews, running BP clinics and diabetic clinics. The band 5 ones did slightly less involved things and they couldn't prescribe whereas the band 7s often can. Ours didn't see acute patients though.