Clinical Pharmacist Support · Sittingbourne, Kent
Clinical Pharmacist Support for GP Practices in Sittingbourne
Give your Sittingbourne practice its GP time back. Our UK-based clinical pharmacists take reviews, prescriptions and monitoring off your team, with prescription signing by our independent prescribers, working inside your own clinical system. Swale lists carry a heavier medicines load per patient than most of Kent, so this is capacity aimed squarely at where the hours go.
The service is available to every practice and PCN in Sittingbourne, delivered remotely by our UK team inside your own clinical system. We manage cover and delivery to the scope, operating days and escalation arrangements agreed with your practice. We hold no premises in Sittingbourne.
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Medicines capacity that keeps pace with Swale
Sittingbourne sits in the borough of Swale, commissioned by NHS Kent and Medway ICB. The town’s practices are organised into Sittingbourne PCN, which covers the town and the surrounding villages, and Swale sits alongside Medway in the wider health and care partnership.
Two things shape medicines work in this part of Kent. Swale lists tend to carry more patients on more medicines than the Kent average, which makes dedicated review time genuinely valuable here. And sustained housebuilding around the town keeps adding registrations, so the volume grows year on year. Both point the same way: a steady, predictable body of medicines work that suits a team whose whole job is to carry it.
That is the work we are built for. Structured reviews, monitoring recalls and discharge letters all reward being worked to a fixed schedule by people with time set aside for them, and handing them over gives your clinicians back the appointments only they can do.
What you buy is a managed service: supervision, cover and clinical governance are all held by us. That is the practical difference between this and recruiting for the work yourself, and it is why the workstream keeps running whoever is available in a given week.
What we take off your team
Each of these is a service in its own right. Take one, or take several together.
Structured medication reviews
Swale lists run high on polypharmacy, so the review list is where the biggest win sits. We work the complex end of it, the reviews that take longest.
Clinical medication reviewsHigh risk drug monitoring
Medicine-specific monitoring, recall and follow-up, with overdue or concerning findings escalated under the agreed protocol.
High risk drug monitoringDischarge and clinical letters
Medicines changes in discharge and clinic letters reviewed, reconciled and actioned where appropriate within the agreed response times, with unresolved concerns escalated.
Discharge reconciliationRepeat prescribing
Acute request triage worked to your protocols, so a growing list stays comfortably ahead of its queue.
Repeat prescriptionsNot sure where to start? Tell us which workstream you would most like handed over and we will scope it with you, with no obligation.
Get a free scoping callSelected practice-level QOF measures for Sittingbourne
These published figures provide context for medicines services. They describe registered practice populations, not all residents of Sittingbourne.
QOF 2024/25; indicator 219; 7 practices with data16.66% practice median England: 15.23%; difference: +1.43 percentage points
QOF 2024/25; indicator 258; 7 practices with data5.72% practice median England: 4.64%; difference: +1.08 percentage points
Source: OHID Fingertips, National General Practice Profiles, using NHS England QOF data. Practices are grouped by postal town extracted from the NHSBSA Prescriber Details address register and matched by ODS practice code. Each local figure is the unweighted median of the available practice percentages; for an even number of practices, the two middle values are averaged. The England figure is the published national prevalence value. Eligible age groups, periods and sample sizes are shown for each measure. The comparison is descriptive: it is not population-wide town prevalence, and no town-level statistical significance has been established. These practices are not a list of our clients.
What the first three months usually look like
Indicative, and shaped by what you hand over. Nothing here needs a change to how your practice already works.
Weeks 1 to 2
Scope, protocols and system access agreed. Nothing to install and no change to how your team works.
Weeks 3 to 6
The first workstream runs to a fixed schedule. Usually structured reviews, because that is where the visible time goes.
Weeks 7 to 12
Reporting shows what moved. Most practices wait until this point to add a second workstream.
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.
Frequently asked questions
Do you have pharmacists based in this area?
Our pharmacists deliver the agreed service remotely from within the UK, working in your clinical system. The service does not require a clinician to be based locally.
Does a Kent practice need a Kent based provider?
For a remote medicines service, no. What matters is that the service runs inside your system, understands the DES and QOF requirements your ICB is measuring, and delivers to the schedule you agreed. None of that improves by being twenty minutes down the road.
What if our practice is not in a PCN arrangement?
We work with individual practices as well as networks. The service is the same, and the scoping conversation is the same.
Can this be funded through ARRS?
Often, yes. The Network Contract DES lets a PCN bring in roles like this through a service contract with a provider, as well as by employing someone directly. Tell us which workstream you have in mind and we will map it against the current ARRS rules with you before you commit to anything.
How much does it cost?
We will give you a clear, tailored quote once we know which workstreams you want to hand over and the size of the practice behind them; pricing depends on both, so a single published figure would not be honest. The scoping conversation carries no obligation, and you will get a straight answer on whether the numbers work for your practice.
See what a managed service could take off your Sittingbourne practice
Tell us which workstream you would like covered first. You will get a straight view of what we can take on and what it would involve, with no obligation attached.
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