Clinical Pharmacist Support · Barnsley, South Yorkshire
Clinical Pharmacist Support for GP Practices in Barnsley
One borough, one set of priorities, and the capacity to deliver them. Barnsley plans its primary care tightly as a single borough, and its respiratory and blood pressure registers both run above the England average. Our clinical pharmacists deliver that workload remotely, inside your own clinical system.
The service is available to every practice and PCN in Barnsley, 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 Barnsley.
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Respiratory and blood pressure work, planned borough-wide and delivered every week
Barnsley’s practices are commissioned by NHS South Yorkshire ICB, where the borough is one of four places and has a long record of planning and delivering primary care as a single unit.
Respiratory disease, raised blood pressure and diabetes all sit above the England average across the borough, and the industrial history behind that is still legible in the numbers. Inhaler technique, rescue medication, annual respiratory review and blood pressure titration are steady weekly work here rather than occasional tasks.
Because the borough plans together, the priorities are usually already agreed. What a practice or network typically needs is the clinical capacity to work them at the pace the registers demand, which is precisely what we supply.
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.
Long term condition clinics
Remote COPD, asthma, hypertension and diabetes clinics, on registers running above the England average.
Long term conditionsHigh risk drug monitoring
Medicine-specific monitoring, recall and follow-up, with overdue or concerning findings escalated under the agreed protocol.
High risk drug monitoringStructured medication reviews
Structured reviews where respiratory and cardiovascular conditions sit together in the same patient.
Clinical medication reviewsRepeat prescribing
Repeat authorisation worked to your protocols, with inhaler and rescue medication checks built in.
Repeat prescriptionsNot 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 Barnsley
These published figures provide context for medicines services. They describe registered practice populations, not all residents of Barnsley.
QOF 2024/25; indicator 219; 25 practices with data17.77% practice median England: 15.23%; difference: +2.54 percentage points
QOF 2024/25; indicator 253; 25 practices with data3.49% practice median England: 1.89%; difference: +1.60 percentage points
QOF 2024/25; indicator 241; 25 practices with data9.13% practice median England: 7.89%; difference: +1.24 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 agreed against your registers, protocols confirmed, system access arranged.
Weeks 3 to 6
First workstream live, most often the respiratory clinics or the reviews behind them.
Weeks 7 to 12
Reporting on completion and clinical change, which is the basis for handing over more.
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?
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.
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.
Our borough already works closely together. Where does an outside provider fit?
The borough sets the priorities and we add the clinical capacity to deliver them, without a recruitment round in between.
Can this be funded through ARRS?
Often, yes. ARRS funding can cover a commissioned service as well as directly employed roles. We map the fit against your PCN’s allocation as part of scoping.
What happens when someone is on leave?
Cover sits with us. Your workstream keeps running to the agreed schedule.
See what a managed service could take off your Barnsley 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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