Clinical Pharmacist Support · Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire
Clinical Pharmacist Support for GP Practices in Stoke-on-Trent
Six towns, one city, and more respiratory disease than the England average. Stoke-on-Trent carries respiratory and cardiovascular prevalence well above the England average, on lists that are rarely large. Our clinical pharmacists take the medicines work off your team remotely, inside your own clinical system.
The service is available to every practice and PCN in Stoke-on-Trent. 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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An industrial legacy that still shows up in the medicines
Stoke-on-Trent’s practices are commissioned by NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent ICB, which covers the city together with Newcastle-under-Lyme, the Staffordshire Moorlands and the county to the south.
The city is a federation of six towns rather than a single centre, and its industrial history is still legible in the health data. Rates of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and cardiovascular disease run above the England average, and smoking-related illness remains a significant driver of both. That combination is medicines-heavy and monitoring-heavy in equal measure.
List sizes here are not unusually large, which is exactly what makes capacity planning misleading. The work does not scale with the number of patients registered; it scales with how many of them are on four or more medicines, and in this part of Staffordshire that proportion is high.
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.
Long term condition clinics
Remote COPD, asthma, hypertension and diabetes clinics, on a list where respiratory disease runs above the national picture.
Long term conditionsStructured medication reviews
Structured reviews on a list where four or more medicines is common, including the housebound.
Clinical medication reviewsHigh risk drug monitoring
High risk drug monitoring with the recall and chasing done, which is what keeps this kind of list safe.
High risk drug monitoringDischarge and clinical letters
Royal Stoke changes reconciled and actioned so they reach the record correctly the first time.
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 callThe monitoring load behind Stoke-on-Trent’s blood pressure register
Blood pressure registers across Stoke-on-Trent run significantly larger than the England average in most 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 sized to your medicines workload, not your registered list. Protocols and system access agreed.
Weeks 3 to 6
First workstream live, most often long-term condition clinics or the reviews behind them.
Weeks 7 to 12
Reporting on what cleared and what moved clinically, which is when a second workstream usually gets added.
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.
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 average sized but the workload is not. Does this still fit?
It fits better than average. We scope against the medicines workload, so a list with heavy polypharmacy is sized on the work it actually generates.
Can you run COPD and asthma clinics remotely?
Yes. Remote long-term condition clinics cover COPD, asthma, hypertension and diabetes, run to your protocols and recorded in your own system.
What if our practice is not in a PCN arrangement?
We work with individual practices as well as networks. The service and the scoping conversation are the same.
Who supervises the pharmacist?
We do. Supervision, CPD, indemnity and clinical governance sit with us, which is the main practical difference between this and recruiting directly.
See what a managed service could take off your Stoke-on-Trent 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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