Clinical Pharmacist Support · Liverpool, Merseyside
Clinical Pharmacist Support for GP Practices in Liverpool
Review capacity sized to the medicines work your list really generates. Liverpool practices carry long-term condition prevalence well above the England average, and the medicines work follows the prevalence. Our clinical pharmacists take that work on remotely, inside your own clinical system, with cover and governance held by us.
The service is available to every practice and PCN in Liverpool, 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 Liverpool.
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Prevalence, not list size, sets the workload here
Liverpool’s practices are commissioned by NHS Cheshire and Merseyside ICB, one of the largest boards in England by population, covering the city alongside Knowsley, Sefton, St Helens and the wider Cheshire footprint.
What sets the workload here is prevalence more than raw list size. Liverpool lists generate more medicines work per thousand patients than their size suggests, so we size capacity to the medicines workload itself. A list here can be smaller than a suburban one and still generate substantially more medicines work per thousand patients.
That has a specific consequence for how capacity is best planned. The work scales with how many medicines each patient is on more than with how many patients there are, so sizing against the medicines workload is what makes the resource fit. Structured reviews are where that shows up first.
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
Polypharmacy is the local reality, so reviews are where the biggest gain sits. We work the complex end, including the housebound.
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 monitoringLong term condition clinics
Remote clinics for hypertension, diabetes, asthma and COPD, run to your protocols.
Long term conditionsDischarge and clinical letters
Reconciliation of changes from the city’s acute trusts, actioned straight into the record.
Discharge reconciliationNot 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 Liverpool
These published figures provide context for medicines services. They describe registered practice populations, not all residents of Liverpool.
QOF 2024/25; indicator 258; 106 practices with data5.98% practice median England: 4.64%; difference: +1.34 percentage points
QOF 2024/25; indicator 253; 106 practices with data3.14% practice median England: 1.89%; difference: +1.25 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 sized against your medicines workload, because headcount understates it. Protocols and system access agreed alongside.
Weeks 3 to 6
First workstream live. Where prevalence runs high this is almost always structured reviews.
Weeks 7 to 12
Reporting on what was cleared and what changed clinically, which is the basis for deciding what to hand over next.
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.
Our list is not especially large, but the workload is. Does this still make sense?
It usually makes more sense, not less. We scope against medicines workload rather than list size, so a smaller list with heavy polypharmacy gets sized on what the work actually is.
Can you review housebound and care home patients?
Yes. Those reviews are among the most valuable to hand over, because they take the longest and are the easiest to defer when a practice is stretched.
Do you work with SystmOne as well as EMIS?
Yes, and with Vision and Medicus. The service runs the same way in each of them.
How much does it cost?
Pricing is tailored to the workstreams you hand over and the size of your list, so we quote after a short, no-obligation scoping conversation rather than publishing one figure that would not fit most practices.
See what a managed service could take off your Liverpool 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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