Clinical Pharmacist Support · Sittingbourne, Kent
Clinical Pharmacist Support for GP Practices in Sittingbourne
Give your Sittingbourne practice its GP time back. Swale practices carry a heavier medicines load per patient than most of Kent, and the housebuilding around the town keeps adding to it. Our UK-based clinical pharmacists take reviews, prescriptions and monitoring off your team, working inside your own clinical system.
The service is available to every practice and PCN in Sittingbourne. We hold no premises in the town and place nobody on site: because cover never depends on who can travel, the work gets picked up to the same standard every week.
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Medicines capacity in 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 pressures shape medicines work in this part of Kent. Swale carries some of the highest deprivation in the county, which tends to mean more patients on more medicines and more complex reviews per head. And sustained housebuilding around the town has grown list sizes faster than clinical capacity has followed. Both push the same way: more medicines work per clinician, and less room in the day to do it.
The practical effect is that the medicines work which is never urgent on any single day is the work that slips: the structured reviews, the monitoring recalls, the discharge letters that sit waiting to be actioned. That is the work this service is built to absorb.
We are not a staffing agency and we do not place people into your building. You get a managed service, with supervision, cover, indemnity and clinical governance held by us.
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
Deprivation drives polypharmacy, and polypharmacy drives the review list. We work the complex end of it, the reviews that take longest.
Clinical medication reviewsHigh risk drug monitoring
Recalls chased to completion, which matters most on lists where missed appointments are common.
High risk drug monitoringDischarge and clinical letters
Medway and Maidstone discharges reconciled and actioned, not left in the workflow for someone to reach on a quiet afternoon.
Discharge reconciliationRepeat prescribing
Acute request triage worked to your protocols, so a growing list does not mean a growing queue.
Repeat prescriptionsNot sure where to start? Tell us which workstream hurts most and we will scope it with you, with no obligation.
Get a free scoping callThe monitoring load behind Sittingbourne’s blood pressure register
Blood pressure registers across Sittingbourne run significantly larger than the England average in many of its practices. The consequence is a large monitoring and titration workload, and more blood pressure recall than average.
Figures are the median across GP practices in the area against the England value, from NHS Fingertips (National General Practice Profiles, QOF 2024/25). Only differences flagged as statistically significant are shown. Published NHS data about the area, not a statement about which practices we work with.
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 the review backlog, 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?
No, and we do not claim to. Our pharmacists work remotely from across the UK, inside your clinical system. Nothing about the service depends on anyone being nearby, which is exactly why cover stays consistent: it never turns on who can travel on a given day.
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?
In many cases, yes. The Network Contract DES lets a PCN engage roles like this through a service contract rather than only by direct employment, provided the role meets what the DES sets out. Tell us which workstream you have in mind and we will map it against your funding 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 is slipping. You will get an honest view of whether we can help and what it would take, with no obligation attached.
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