PCN Pharmacy Team

Clinical pharmacists

PCN Clinical Pharmacists work as a part of the healthcare team to help improve value and outcomes from medicines.

Clinical Pharmacist can help with prescribing, medication reviews, queries about medications, telephone reviews, managing patient long term condition, ensuring patients get the most out of their medication, dealing with side effects.

Having a clinical pharmacist help means GP’s can focus to manage the demands on their time.

The role of clinical pharmacist are different to the community pharmacist. And the main difference is the clinical pharmacist does not give a patient their medication, this need to be collected from a community pharmacy in the usual way.

Bhargavi Guvvala MSc, IPP.- TEAM LEADER

Bhargavi is the Lead Clinical Pharmacist for the Deben Health Group and has lived in East Anglia for over 8 years. She has worked as a pharmacy manager, superintendent pharmacist and locum pharmacist in the community set up. She has also worked as a clinical pharmcist and has a Masters in Pharmaceutical analysis. She is a positive and friendly person. Currently she is based with the Deben Health Group working out of the pharmacy hub based at Framfield House Surgery and covers as well as Framfield House Surgery, Wickham Market Medical Centre, Little St. John's Street Surgery and the Peninsula Practice. 

Mohammed Yasin MPharm   

Mo is one of the pharmcists with the Deben Health Group PCN. He has a lot of skills and has recently qualified as an Independent Prescribing Pharmacist. He has come from a community pharmacy background, and is very friendly in nature. He is born and bred in Suffolk and is based at the Pharmacy Hub working out of Framfield House Surgery.

Louise Grinham

Louise is a Level 3 Pharmacy Technician/ She joined the Deben Health Group PCN in 2021. Outside of working she enjoyes arts and crafts (particulalry watercolour art), baking and walking her 18 month old rescue puppy. She is very friendly and will go the extra mile to help others. 

Kayleigh Symons

Kayleigh is orginally from Devon and has lived in Suffolk for hte last 3 years. She has over 10 years expereince working in the pharmacy sector working in both primary and secondary care. She has done training in both accuracy checking and medicines optimisation. She also really loves speaking to patients about their medicines and helping them with their healthcare needs. Kayleigh is based at Framfield House Surgery but like everyone else works for all the surgeries within the Deben Health Group, Framfield House, Little St. John's Surgery, Wickham Market Medical Centre and Peninsula Practice. 

David Persuad MRPharmS, IPP

David has lived in East Anglia for over 20 years and has a wide experience of Community Pharmacy and has worked as a locum pharmacist, Pharmacy manager and as a Pharmacy owner. He has a positive friendly nature and he is interested in Classic sportscars .He has taken clinical roles in the last 2 years and is a qualified Independent Prescriber Pharmacist . David works for the Deben Health Group PCN pharmacy hub based at Framfield House surgery and covers remotely the Wickham Market Medical Practice, Little St Johns surgery and Peninsula practice.

Vicky Phipps PCN Pharmacy Technician 

She has worked in the pharmacy setting for over 20 years, starting off in a community pharmacy then progressing onto Hospital Pharmacy as a rotational technician. Within this time she has developed many skills including aseptic training and medicines optimisations ward work. She is based at Framfield House Surgery but covers all surgeries in the Deben Health Group, at Framfield House Surgery, Little St. John's Street, Wickham Market Medical Centre and Peninsula Practice.

Patient Coordinator

Tara Knul

The role of the patient coordinator is to act as a central point of contact for the patients, to review patients’ needs and help them access the services and support they may require and to support the patients to develop personalised care and support plans.

To contact Tara please call 01473 941065 or email tara.knul@nhs.net