Clinical Pharmacist Support · Liverpool, Merseyside
Clinical Pharmacist Support for GP Practices in Liverpool
More patients on more medicines needs more review capacity, not more reminders. 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. 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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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.
The local pressure is prevalence, not raw list size. Liverpool carries some of the highest concentrations of deprivation in England, and deprivation tracks closely with long-term conditions, multiple medicines and earlier onset of all of them. 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 gets planned. Staffing to headcount underestimates the workload, because the work does not scale with the number of patients so much as with how many medicines each one is on. Structured reviews are where that shows up first.
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
Polypharmacy is the local reality, so reviews are the local bottleneck. We work the complex end, including the housebound.
Clinical medication reviewsHigh risk drug monitoring
High risk drug monitoring with the recall and chasing done, which matters most where non-attendance is common.
High risk drug monitoringLong term condition clinics
Remote clinics for hypertension, diabetes, asthma and COPD, on lists where all four run above the national picture.
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 hurts most and we will scope it with you, with no obligation.
Get a free scoping callKidney function, and the prescribing it constrains in Liverpool
Many Liverpool practices record chronic kidney disease above the England average. CKD is quietly one of the most demanding conditions for a prescribing team: more dose adjustment and monitoring, and more medicines that need renal function checked before issue.
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 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?
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.
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 Medicus. The service runs the same way in all three.
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 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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