Consultant Pharmacist Services

An initial consultation typically involves a 50-minute appointment with our Consultant Pharmacist.

This will be tailored to the individual questions you have about medication but will usually include taking a full and patient-centred medication history.

This includes a review of all past medications and your response to them (both in terms of efficacy and side effects).

It will include all medicines you take or have taken, both prescribed and purchased over the counter, as well as supplements, herbal medicines, and any other alternative treatments.

Our Consultant Pharmacist is an expert in all aspects of medication use and approaches all conversations about medication from a person-centred viewpoint.

Your experiences and feelings about medicines, and what you want to achieve from pharmacotherapy will be the centre of all consultations.

Our Consultant Pharmacist service is provided by Dr Siobhan Gee.

Initial Pharmacist Consultations with our Consultant Pharmacist are charged at £450.

Any further follow-up appointments will then be charged at normal follow-up rates, as needed.

After the assessment, if medicines are changed a follow-up appointment to discuss your progress may be recommended.

This will be an opportunity to check-in with how you are experiencing any medication changes, address adverse effects or any other concerns, and ensure optimisation of medication regimens.

A follow up appointment with our Consultant Pharmacist costs £250 for 30 minutes.

Our Consultant Pharmacist cannot prescribe medication but will work closely with your prescribing psychiatrist to advise them as to any dosage adjustments or recommendations as to stopping or starting certain medications.

Unfortunately, health insurance does not currently cover Pharmacy appointments, so all appointments with our Consultant Pharmacist would need to be self-funded.

We book in all new patients for a full 50 minute appointment for their initial consultation.

In cases where only 30 minutes are needed, patients are billed as such, rather than the full fee.

Yes. Generally, our psychiatrists and consultant pharmacist will work together to provide integrated care for a shared patient.

This means that whilst these sessions will focus on medication specifically, patients will require follow-up appointments and continue to be monitored by their treating psychiatrist.

It can be very useful to have a family member/partner present for some parts of the initial assessment, as it provides further information on a patient’s presentation and symptoms and may fill in gaps that may be missed or forgotten by the patient themselves.

However, it is not necessary to bring someone along with you, and if you do wish to bring someone, they do not need to come into the appointment or if you do wish for them to be present, they can be present for only some of the assessment.

To book in to see our Consultant Pharmacist, either speak to your treating Psychiatrist in your next session, or ask our Patient Services team to help make the referral.