Clinical Pharmacist Support · Sunderland, Tyne and Wear
Clinical Pharmacist Support for GP Practices in Sunderland
Three registers above the England average, worked every week without fail. Sunderland records blood pressure, respiratory disease and diabetes all above the England average. Our clinical pharmacists take that combined long-term condition workload on remotely, inside your own clinical system, with cover held by us.
The service is available to every practice and PCN in Sunderland, 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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A city where long-term conditions overlap in the same patients
Sunderland’s practices are commissioned by NHS North East and North Cumbria ICB, with the city operating as its own place within that board and a long history of planning primary care locally.
Three registers run above the England average here at once: blood pressure, respiratory disease and diabetes. They overlap in the same patients more often than not, which is what makes a structured review in this city longer, more clinically useful and harder to fit into a normal day.
Work like that is exactly what a dedicated pharmacist service is for. The reviews get booked, worked and recorded to a schedule, and the monitoring behind them is chased to completion rather than reported as outstanding.
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
Structured reviews where several conditions interact, including the housebound and care home lists.
Clinical medication reviewsLong term condition clinics
Remote COPD, asthma, hypertension and diabetes clinics, all of which run above the national picture here.
Long term conditionsHigh risk drug monitoring
High risk drug recall and chasing carried through to completion, not merely flagged.
High risk drug monitoringDischarge and clinical letters
Hospital changes reconciled and actioned into the record the week they land.
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 callThe monitoring load behind Sunderland’s blood pressure register
Blood pressure registers across Sunderland 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 agreed against your registers rather than your headcount. Protocols and access follow.
Weeks 3 to 6
First workstream live to a weekly schedule, usually reviews or respiratory clinics.
Weeks 7 to 12
Reporting on what was completed and what changed clinically, before anything else is added.
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 patients often have several conditions at once. Can you work at that level?
Yes, and it is the work we would rather take. Reviews where conditions interact are the longest to do properly and the most useful to a practice when someone else has the time for them.
Can you run COPD and asthma clinics remotely?
Yes. Remote long-term condition clinics cover COPD, asthma, hypertension and diabetes, run to your protocols.
What happens when your pharmacist is on leave?
Cover is our responsibility. The workstream keeps running to the agreed schedule regardless of who is available in a given week.
How quickly can you start?
Typically a few weeks, most of it agreeing scope and protocols.
See what a managed service could take off your Sunderland 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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