M:CR/Serial Prescribing

Medicines: Care & Review (M:CR) Service and Serial Prescriptions (SRx)

Watch our new video from Pauline and Gillian (Primary Care Facilitators) that contains help and information about the M:CR service.

For help, advice or to organise a visit/staff training please contact: fife.gmsfacilitators@nhs.scot

Our efforts in Fife to help manage the demand for repeat prescriptions is going well – thank you for your support. GP practices and community pharmacies, supported by pharmacy teams in GP practices, continue to work together to increase the number of serial prescriptions. Some general practices in Fife have converted as much a 40% of their eligible repeat medication requests over to SRx. This helps to reduce the administrative workload for everyone and also makes it easier for patients to collect their medication. Patients that receive SRx also under go a Care Needs Assessment at their registered pharmacy within the first 16 weeks and annually thereafter – this facilitates more person centred conversations and improved quality of care for the people we serve. It also remains a Scottish Government priority.  

Resources

SRx Champions

A list of our Primary Care Team serial prescribing champions is below, please contact the champion in your cluster if you would like to discuss any aspect of the serial prescribing campaign.

NameClusterEmail AddressContact Number
Rona MartinL’gelly/C’beathrona.martin@nhs.scot07966630867
Joyce YoungKirkcaldyjoyce.young@nhs.scot07760171453
Karen McDonaldDunfermlinekaren.mcdonald10@nhs.scot07811832601
Jen LaingS’westjennifer.laing@nhs.scot07900161635
Leona PatersonG’rothesleona.paterson@nhs.scot07824408396
Pauline AllanNEFpauline.allan2@nhs.scot07979728113
Kirsteen ManzieL’mouthkirsteen.manzie@nhs.scot07557114127