Clinical Pharmacist Support · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Clinical Pharmacist Support for GP Practices in Cambridge
A younger, healthier list still generates plenty of medicines work. Cambridge records lower prevalence than the England average across several long-term conditions, so the medicines work here is weighted towards volume and turnover. Our clinical pharmacists absorb that inside your own clinical system, on an agreed schedule.
The service is available to every practice and PCN in Cambridge, 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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Where the work is volume and movement, not complexity
Cambridge’s practices are commissioned by NHS Central East ICB, which covers the city alongside Cambridgeshire, Peterborough and the surrounding counties to the east.
The clinical picture here is unusual: several long-term condition registers sit below the England average. That does not mean less medicines work, it means work of a different shape. A young, highly mobile population with a large student and research community generates constant registrations, reconciliation and record chasing instead of long complex reviews.
That work is well defined and repeatable, which makes it some of the easiest to hand over cleanly. It also has no natural owner in a busy practice, which is usually why it is the first thing a manager here asks about.
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.
Discharge and clinical letters
Reconciliation of hospital and clinic changes, worked as it arrives rather than in batches.
Discharge reconciliationRepeat prescribing
Repeat authorisation and acute request triage at volume, worked to your protocols.
Repeat prescriptionsStructured medication reviews
Structured reviews scheduled and completed for the patients who do carry several medicines.
Clinical medication reviewsHigh risk drug monitoring
High risk drug recall and chasing carried through, including for patients who move on quickly.
High risk drug monitoringNot 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 callHow Cambridge compares on long-term conditions
On several long-term conditions Cambridge records lower prevalence than the England average, hypertension among them. That does not mean less medicines work. It means the work is weighted towards volume and turnover rather than complex review.
Source: NHS Fingertips, National General Practice Profiles, QOF 2024/25. The comparison is the area median against England, and only statistically significant differences appear here. These are published figures about the area; they say nothing about who our clients are.
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 where your volume actually is, plus protocols and system access.
Weeks 3 to 6
First workstream live, most often repeats or reconciliation on a high-turnover list.
Weeks 7 to 12
Reporting on throughput and what it freed up, before anything else is handed over.
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.
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 are mostly young and healthy. Is this still worth it?
Usually yes, because the work moves from complexity to volume. Registrations, reconciliation and repeat requests still take clinical time, and they are the tasks most easily absorbed by a service.
We have heavy seasonal turnover from students. Can you flex with that?
Yes. Scope can be weighted towards the months when registration and reconciliation work actually lands, instead of spread evenly across the year.
Do you work with SystmOne as well as EMIS?
Yes, and with Vision and Medicus. The service runs the same way in all three.
How quickly can you start?
Typically a few weeks, most of it spent agreeing scope and protocols.
See what a managed service could take off your Cambridge 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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