Long-Term Conditions Clinics
Long-Term Conditions Clinics
What is a Long-Term Conditions Clinic?
How Will This Help My Practice?
Our expert pharmacists provide structured medication reviews, monitoring and management services of LTCs in remote settings, strengthening practice handling of these conditions for its patients.
Improves patient outcomes
Utilising specially trained pharmacists with frequent, in-depth clinical reviews.
Relieves workforce pressures on GP teams
Reducing the need for space and onsite staffing within practices.
Environmentally sustainable approach
Supporting NHS net zero ambitions with digital-first LTC management.
Supports QOF and SNOMED standards
Improving the quality of reviews, monitoring and treatments.
Improves safety and medicines optimisation
Identifying high-risk medicines, optimising dosages, and deprescribing where appropriate.
Aligns with local guidelines
Following NICE guidance, ICB pathways, MHRA alerts and safety requirements.
“The team is consistently reliable. Phones are always answered and emails come back the same day. It’s made a real difference to how we run our medication reviews.”
“Fast email replies and always there when we need clinical input. The pharmacists fit straight into the team and just get on with the work.”
“Excellent service from start to finish. Easy to reach, quick to reply, and they clearly know NHS workflows inside out. We couldn’t recommend the team more highly.”
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Frequently Asked Questions
What types of long-term conditions clinics can pharmacists carry out?
Our pharmacists are highly trained in LTC treatments to produce better patient outcomes. This service includes our pharmacists handling the following:
- Annual asthma reviews
- COPD reviews
- Diabetes and T2DM
- optimisation
- Hypertension reviews
- CVD prevention and lipid optimisation
- CKD staging and monitoring
- Management of thyroid issues, such as hypothyroidism
- Monitoring of medication to treat mental health conditions, such as SSRIs, antipsychotics, and lithium
- Monitoring of high-risk medicines, such as DOACs and lithium
- Chronic pain
Can your pharmacists issue prescriptions?
How do remote LTC clinics work?
Our LTC clinic service is carried out remotely by our expert team of pharmacists. This is completed either by phone or video call, as the patient requests. All documentation and prescribing occurs directly in EMIS or SystmOne – whichever software the practice uses.
This remote service greatly reduces the need for onsite availability and clinical rooms. GP teams will only see escalations or complex diagnostic issues.
Can this service be used to clear backlogs or prepare for QOF year-end?
Yes, this service offers targeted programmes to help practices:
- Clear asthma and COPD backlogs
- Reduce uncontrolled diabetic cohorts
- Tidy hypertension registers
- Improve lipid optimisation and QRISK outcomes
- Align CKD coding
- Clear frailty and polypharmacy lists
