Clinical Pharmacist Support · Oldham, Greater Manchester
Clinical Pharmacist Support for GP Practices in Oldham
Care home rounds, housebound reviews and a diabetes register that keeps growing. Oldham combines a diabetes register above the England average with a substantial care home and housebound population up towards the moors. Our clinical pharmacists take on the reviews both of those generate, working remotely inside your own clinical system.
The service is available to every practice and PCN in Oldham, 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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The reviews that take longest are the ones we take first
Oldham’s practices are commissioned by NHS Greater Manchester ICB, where the borough operates as one of ten places with its own locality arrangements.
Two things drive the medicines week here. Diabetes is recorded above the England average, and the borough carries a sizeable care home and housebound population, particularly in the villages running up to the Saddleworth moors. A care home round and a housebound review are the two pieces of work that take the most clinical time per patient and are the first to be deferred when a practice is busy.
They are also the two we would rather take. A remote pharmacist working inside your system can prepare, complete and record those reviews without travelling to a single address, and the same is true for the diabetes clinics behind them.
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.
Structured medication reviews
Care home rounds and housebound reviews prepared, completed and recorded, which is the longest work per patient in the borough.
Clinical medication reviewsLong term condition clinics
Remote diabetes, hypertension, asthma and COPD clinics run to your protocols.
Long term conditionsHigh risk drug monitoring
High risk drug recall and chasing carried through to completion week by week.
High risk drug monitoringDischarge and clinical letters
Hospital changes reconciled and actioned, including for residents moving between home and care settings.
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 callWhy diabetes drives the medicines workload in Oldham
Most Oldham practices record diabetes prevalence significantly above the England average. Diabetes is the condition that most reliably turns into medicines work: more patients on multiple medicines, and more structured reviews per thousand patients than an average list generates.
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 agreed, including which care homes and housebound lists are in it. Protocols and access follow.
Weeks 3 to 6
First workstream live, most often the care home and housebound reviews.
Weeks 7 to 12
Reporting on completion by setting, so you can see the homes and the practice lists separately.
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.
Can you review care home residents without visiting them?
Yes. The review is prepared from the record, discussed with the home and the prescriber where needed, and recorded in your system. Where a physical examination is required, that stays with whoever normally provides it.
Can you run diabetes clinics remotely?
Yes. Remote long-term condition clinics cover diabetes, hypertension, asthma and COPD, run to your protocols and recorded in your own system.
Can a whole PCN commission this together?
Yes, and care home work is one of the clearest cases for it, because homes often take residents from several practices in the same network.
Who holds the clinical governance?
We do, including supervision, CPD and indemnity for everyone delivering the work.
See what a managed service could take off your Oldham 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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