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Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring in place when required. Risk stratification Identification of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared practice computer searches This include risks that are patient related, medicine related, or both. Service development Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components (e.g. advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets). Information management Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision- making. Medicines quality improvement Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the practice team. Medicines safety Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance. Implementation of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations Monitor practice prescribing against the local health economy’s RAG list and make recommendations to GPs for medicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or subject to shared care (amber drugs). Assist practice in seeing and maintaining a