Clinical Pharmacist Support · Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
Clinical Pharmacist Support for GP Practices in Newcastle upon Tyne
The largest commissioner in England, and capacity that reaches all of it. North East and North Cumbria commissions across a footprint that runs from the Tyne to the Solway. Our clinical pharmacists work remotely inside your own clinical system, so a city practice and a Northumberland one get the same workstream to the same standard.
The service is available to every practice and PCN in Newcastle upon Tyne, delivered remotely by our UK team inside your own clinical system. Cover never depends on who can travel, so the work is picked up to the same standard every week. We hold no premises in the town.
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One commissioner, from the Tyne to the Solway
Newcastle’s practices are commissioned by NHS North East and North Cumbria ICB, the largest integrated care board in England by geography. It covers the Tyneside boroughs alongside Northumberland, County Durham, Teesside and north Cumbria.
Blood pressure registers across the city run significantly larger than the England average, which puts titration, recall and annual review at the centre of the medicines week. That is high-volume, protocol-driven work, and it is well suited to being run centrally to one standard.
The city is also a regional centre for specialist care, so the flow of discharge letters and clinic changes into practice records is steady and heavy. Reconciling those promptly keeps the record accurate for everything else that depends on it.
What you buy is a managed service: supervision, cover, indemnity 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.
High risk drug monitoring
Blood pressure and high risk drug monitoring with recall and chasing done, on registers that run above the England average.
High risk drug monitoringDischarge and clinical letters
Changes from the city’s teaching hospitals reconciled and actioned into the record the week they arrive.
Discharge reconciliationStructured medication reviews
Structured medication reviews scheduled and completed, including the housebound and care home lists.
Clinical medication reviewsLong term condition clinics
Remote hypertension, diabetes, asthma and COPD clinics, reaching every practice in a network at once.
Long term conditionsNot 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 callBlood pressure monitoring at Newcastle upon Tyne scale
Many practices in Newcastle upon Tyne carry blood pressure registers larger than the England average. That produces 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 and protocols agreed, at network level where that is where the funding sits. System access follows.
Weeks 3 to 6
First workstream live across every site in scope simultaneously, usually monitoring or reviews.
Weeks 7 to 12
Reporting by practice and in aggregate, so a network spread across a wide area sees one comparable picture.
Fast email replies and clinical input whenever we need it. They picked up our medicines work seamlessly and delivered from day one.
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 network covers a wide area. Does that make delivery harder?
It makes remote delivery more useful. Nothing about the service depends on travel, so a practice an hour from the city gets the same weekly schedule as one in the centre.
Can a whole network commission this together?
Yes. Scoping at network level usually means protocols are agreed once and audits run once for every practice in scope.
Who holds the clinical governance?
We do, including supervision, CPD and indemnity for everyone delivering the work. You keep clinical responsibility for your patients and your prescribing decisions.
How quickly can you start?
Typically a few weeks, and most of that is agreeing scope and protocols. The technical setup is the quick part.
See what a managed service could take off your Newcastle upon Tyne 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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