Clinical Pharmacist Support · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Clinical Pharmacist Support for GP Practices in Cambridge
Support for medicines work in a changing patient population. Cambridge records lower prevalence than the England average across several long-term conditions. Area-level figures do not determine the needs of an individual practice. 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. We manage cover and delivery to the scope, operating days and escalation arrangements agreed with your practice. We hold no premises in Cambridge.
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Medicines support for a changing patient population
Cambridge’s practices are commissioned by NHS Central East ICB, which covers the city alongside Cambridgeshire, Peterborough, Bedfordshire and their neighbours to the south.
Cambridge has a large student and research community. Registrations, medicines reconciliation and obtaining previous records can all require clinical time, alongside structured reviews for patients with complex needs. We agree priorities from the practice’s own population and prescribing workload.
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 callSelected practice-level QOF measures for Cambridge
These published figures provide context for medicines services. They describe registered practice populations, not all residents of Cambridge.
QOF 2024/25; indicator 219; 28 practices with data11.62% practice median England: 15.23%; difference: -3.61 percentage points
QOF 2024/25; indicator 258; 28 practices with data2.49% practice median England: 4.64%; difference: -2.15 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 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?
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.
Our patients are mostly young and healthy. Is this still worth it?
Registrations, medicines reconciliation and repeat requests can require clinical time at any age. We assess the workload with your practice, including complex needs, before agreeing the service scope.
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 each of them.
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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