Clinical Pharmacist Support · Coventry, West Midlands
Clinical Pharmacist Support for GP Practices in Coventry
One commissioner covering a busy city and a wide rural county. Coventry and Warwickshire pairs a dense city with market towns and villages across the county. Our clinical pharmacists work remotely inside your own clinical system, scoped to whichever of those you actually run.
The service is available to every practice and PCN in Coventry, 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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One board, two very different footprints
Coventry’s practices are commissioned by NHS Coventry and Warwickshire ICB, which covers the city together with Nuneaton, Rugby, Leamington Spa, Warwick and the surrounding county. Some practices at the city’s western edge are commissioned by the Birmingham and Solihull board instead.
The board’s two halves behave differently. Coventry itself is a compact, diverse city with a large student population and significant deprivation in its northern and eastern wards. Warwickshire is older, wealthier on average and much more dispersed, with market town practices covering wide rural catchments.
For medicines work the practical difference is where the volume sits. In the city it is reconciliation and repeat requests driven by turnover; in the county it is structured reviews and monitoring on older lists. A network spanning both is well served by one protocol and two volume assumptions.
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.
Repeat prescribing
Repeat authorisation and acute triage at city volume, worked to your protocols, not a generic rule set.
Repeat prescriptionsStructured medication reviews
Structured reviews on the older county practices, working through the complex cases that take the most time.
Clinical medication reviewsDischarge and clinical letters
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire changes reconciled and actioned straight into the record.
Discharge reconciliationHigh risk drug monitoring
Recall and chasing carried through per site, so every county practice is measured on its own position.
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 Coventry compares on long-term conditions
On several long-term conditions Coventry 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, sized separately for city and county sites where a network covers both. Protocols and access follow.
Weeks 3 to 6
First workstream live to a shared protocol at volumes that differ by practice.
Weeks 7 to 12
Reporting per site, which is normally where the difference between the two footprints becomes explicit.
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 PCN spans city and county practices. Does that work?
It suits this service well. We share the protocol and size the volume per practice, which is the arrangement that fits a split footprint.
Some practices near us report to the Birmingham board. Does that matter?
Not to us. We work to the requirements your own commissioner is measuring, and where a network spans two boards we scope that explicitly.
Can a whole network commission this together?
Yes. Scoping at network level usually means shared protocols, and audits that run once for every practice in the network.
How quickly can you start?
Typically a few weeks, and most of that is agreeing scope and protocols. The technical setup is the quick part.
See what a managed service could take off your Coventry 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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