High Risk Drug Monitoring

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High Risk Drug Monitoring

What is High Risk Drug Monitoring?

A necessary and critical process to track medications that pose a potential threat to patients’ safety.A structured review of a patient’s medication following national standards and CQC expectations.

Virtual Pharmacist collaborates with practices and PCNs to provide a governance-led approach to monitoring high-risk medications, such as DMARDs, lithium, amiodarone, and antipsychotics.

Our pharmacists place patient safety first, ensuring that all necessary blood tests and clinical parameters are completed on time, recorded accurately, and actioned according to SPS and NICE guidance.

How Will This Help
My Practice?

Our high-risk drug monitoring service is a safety and compliance solution designed to proactively support practices and look after patients who have been prescribed potentially hazardous medications
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Enhances patient safety and safeguarding

Reduces clinical risk and prevents hospital admissions.

Ensures practice compliance

In line with QOF and CQC expectations and objectives.

Fully traceable and auditable monitoring

Using Virtual Pharmacist’s standard operating procedures.

Reduces GP workloads

Our team monitors all required tests and recalls.

Provides timely reviews

We ensure all necessary tests are completed and recorded
on time.

Shared governance and collaboration

Supports practices to optimise patient care.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How does this reduce risk for our practice?
Our team monitors all required tests and recalls, ensuring no patients on high-risk drugs are missed from these communications or reviews. Any anomalies or delays are escalated immediately for review. This helps to protect the practice from potential safety incidents and regulatory breaches.
Yes, our independent prescribers can act on abnormal results, issue recalls, and document interventions within your clinical system. This maintains full accountability and transparency.
Through our Virtual Pharmacist system, every action is fully logged, traced, and auditable. Practices receive summary reports demonstrating compliance, interventions, and safety outcomes to provide to CQC and commissioners.
Yes, we use EMIS or SystmOne access, with clear tasking and recall templates so that the service can operate smoothly within your current system.
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