Clinical Pharmacist Support · Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire
Clinical Pharmacist Support for GP Practices in Stoke-on-Trent
Six towns, one city, and long-term condition work we cover every week. Stoke-on-Trent carries respiratory and cardiovascular prevalence well above the England average, on lists that are rarely large. Our clinical pharmacists take that medicines work off your team remotely, inside your own clinical system.
The service is available to every practice and PCN in Stoke-on-Trent, 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 Stoke-on-Trent.
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Long-term condition work, sized to the medicines, not the list
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, so the registered total understates the job. The work scales with how many patients are on four or more medicines, and in this part of Staffordshire that proportion is high, which is why we scope against the medicines workload itself.
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.
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
Medicine-specific monitoring, recall and follow-up, with overdue or concerning findings escalated under the agreed protocol.
High risk drug monitoringDischarge and clinical letters
Royal Stoke changes reconciled and actioned so they land in the record correctly the first time.
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 Stoke-on-Trent
These published figures provide context for medicines services. They describe registered practice populations, not all residents of Stoke-on-Trent.
QOF 2024/25; indicator 219; 48 practices with data19.19% practice median England: 15.23%; difference: +3.96 percentage points
QOF 2024/25; indicator 241; 48 practices with data9.23% practice median England: 7.89%; difference: +1.34 percentage points
QOF 2024/25; indicator 253; 48 practices with data2.55% practice median England: 1.89%; difference: +0.66 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 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?
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 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 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 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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