Kasey Brown - Clinical Pharmacist Prescriber
29th June 2026 | Back to News
Three Rivers Medical is pleased to welcome clinical pharmacist prescriber Kasey Brown to the practice.
“It allows us to have someone very skilled to oversee and manage medications as well as prescribe and see patients face to face. She will be using her considerable knowledge and training to work with patients with complex needs.”
Kasey is a highly qualified clinical pharmacist prescriber, which means she can also prescribe medication to patients.
A clinical pharmacist prescriber is an advanced-practice pharmacist who assesses patients, interprets lab results, and independently prescribes, adjusts, or discontinues medications. She works within Three Rivers Medical to manage chronic conditions and optimise therapy.
Kasey trained as a pharmacist at Otago University and went on to do a postgraduate diploma in clinical pharmacy in 2019. This gave her a greater understanding of health systems and more in-depth knowledge of disease states, conditions and medications.
Three Rivers Medical general manager Michelle Te Kira said it was great to have Kasey onboard.
Kasey was born and raised in Wellington and moved to Gisborne with her husband and three children in 2018.
In 2022 she completed a post-graduate diploma in pharmacist prescribing at the University of Auckland.
She took her first prescribing job in 2023 at Ngati Porou Oranga where she ran diabetes clinics, working predominantly with Māori.
“I travelled as far as Te Araroa seeing patients and running diabetes clinics. Eighty percent of my work was doing face-to-face consults,” Kasey said.
She looks at the big picture, working with patients with complex needs who might be on multiple medications.
“I look at the medicines a patient has been prescribed, match them up to their diagnoses and tidy everything up,” she says.
“I cover long term conditions like heart failure, gout, respiratory conditions, which may not have a cure but need to be maintained and managed. A lot of those complex conditions intertwine.”
This is her second job working in primary care and Kasey is looking forward to seeing her own patients.
As well as doing medicine reconciliations, she can tweak dosages, stop and start different medicines. This allows the other clinicians to focus on acute conditions. She provides another set of eyes on a problem for the GPs and NPs.
“I can look at test results and make changes to the medications and consult over the phone with a patient.”
It takes three years of post-graduate study to become a qualified clinical pharmacist prescriber.
“I have authority to order my own blood tests, interpret the results and prescribe or change medications as needed.”
As a clinical pharmacist prescriber she will conduct in-depth patient assessments, review medication histories, and monitor drug levels in a patient’s blood to maximise safety.
She is legally recognised as a ‘Designated Prescriber’ who can initiate, modify, or stop treatments without needing a doctor to sign off.
Out of work Kasey loves the outdoors and has recently taken up hunting, under the tutelage of her boys.
She is also NZ masters weightlifter and runs the Tūranga Strong Weightlifting Club in Gisborne. She recently qualified at the NZ Weightlifting Nationals and will represent New Zealand at the International Masters Weightlifting Association & Adaptive Championships happening in Greece in September.
“I love lifting – it gets me out of my head and into my body – a bit like hunting with my kids. It’s good to have that balance.”