About Virtual Pharmacist
About Virtual Pharmacist
Our mission is to optimise patient care by managing workflows for pharmacists and practices alike
Virtual Pharmacist delivers a fully managed remote clinical pharmacy service to GP practices, PCNs and ICBs. We take on defined medicines work inside your clinical system and hold the clinical governance for it, so your team can focus on patients. Our service includes training, integration and ongoing support.
Partnered with 375+ Primary Care Practices
Serving 88+ Primary Care Networks
32 years of combined team expertise
Our 100% managed solution optimises patient outcomes
Our Dedicated Team
Behind the service is a team based at our Castleford head office. They keep day-to-day operations running and uphold our service standards.
Luke Billyard
As Operations Director, Luke leads the technology and AI work at Virtual Pharmacist. His focus is research and development, building and refining the systems our pharmacists rely on day-to-day.
As Operations Director, Luke leads the technology and AI work at Virtual Pharmacist. His focus is research and development, building and refining the systems our pharmacists rely on day-to-day.
Laura Billyard
Laura is the founder of Virtual Pharmacist and our Clinical Director. She is a practising pharmacist with over a decade’s experience across Primary Care sectors, plus training, mentoring, and consultancy work. Her standards for clinical quality shape everything we deliver.
Chloe Smith
As Operations Co-ordinator, Chloe supports the smooth delivery of services across our practices. She handles scheduling, makes sure each practice’s service is set up to fit its workload, and coordinates our clinical capacity planning and the onboarding of new pharmacists to our service.
Our Mission & Vision
We started in 2021 to bring better pharmacist support into primary care. Since then we have grown to work with 375+ GP practices across England and 100+ pharmacists across the UK.
Experienced clinical team
Trusted by UK healthcare providers
32 years of combined team expertise
Our own purpose-built management system
“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.”
“Fast email replies and clinical input whenever we need it. They picked up our medicines work seamlessly and delivered from day one.”
“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.”
About Us
Why Choose Virtual Pharmacist?
We work to improve the quality of primary care provided by PCNs, GP practices and ICBs across England through remote clinical pharmacy services.
Our aim is to narrow health inequalities, reduce hospital admissions, and improve patient outcomes, reducing GP workloads and supporting safer, more efficient medicines management.
