Clinical Pharmacist Support · Manchester, Greater Manchester
Clinical Pharmacist Support for GP Practices in Manchester
One commissioner, ten boroughs, and no two patient populations alike. Greater Manchester runs as a single integrated care board covering ten very different boroughs. Our clinical pharmacists work remotely inside your own system, so the standard of the medicines work does not depend on which part of the conurbation your patients live in.
The service is available to every practice and PCN in Manchester. We hold no premises in the town and place nobody on site: because cover never depends on who can travel, the work gets picked up to the same standard every week.
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A single board covering very unequal lists
Manchester’s practices are commissioned by NHS Greater Manchester ICB, one of the largest integrated care boards in the country and the successor to a devolution settlement that goes back further than the ICB structure itself. It covers ten boroughs under one commissioner.
That single commissioner sits over strikingly unequal lists. Life expectancy and long-term condition prevalence vary sharply between neighbouring wards, so practices a few miles apart can face quite different medicines workloads while being measured against the same requirements. Any service that only works well on an easy list is the wrong answer here.
The city also carries a large student and short-stay population, which produces high list turnover. Turnover is invisible in headline list size and very visible in medicines work: more reconciliation, more incomplete records to chase, and more repeat requests from patients whose history sits somewhere else.
We are not a staffing agency and we do not place people into your building. You get a managed service, with supervision, cover, indemnity and clinical governance held by us.
What we take off your team
Each of these is a service in its own right. Take one, or take several together.
Structured medication reviews
Structured reviews on lists where prevalence runs well above the national picture, worked properly at the complex end.
Clinical medication reviewsDischarge and clinical letters
High turnover means constant reconciliation. We action hospital changes the week they arrive.
Discharge reconciliationHigh risk drug monitoring
Recall and chasing carried through on lists where non-attendance is common, which is where monitoring quietly falls behind.
High risk drug monitoringLong term condition clinics
Remote hypertension, diabetes, asthma and COPD clinics, run to the same protocol across every site in a network.
Long term conditionsNot sure where to start? Tell us which workstream hurts most and we will scope it with you, with no obligation.
Get a free scoping callHow Manchester compares on long-term conditions
On several long-term conditions Manchester 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 and protocols agreed, sized against your list, not a standard package. System access follows.
Weeks 3 to 6
First workstream live to a fixed schedule, with the same protocol applied across every practice in scope.
Weeks 7 to 12
Reporting by practice, which in a mixed network is usually the first clear view of where the pressure actually sits.
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.
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 neighbouring practices have very different lists to ours. Can one arrangement cover both?
Yes, and it is one of the more useful things about scoping at network level. The protocol is shared; the volume is sized per practice. That way the harder list gets the capacity it needs without the easier one paying for it.
We have high patient turnover. Does that make this harder?
It makes it more valuable. Turnover generates reconciliation and record-chasing work that has no natural owner in a practice, and that is precisely the sort of workstream a managed service absorbs well.
Can a whole PCN 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 Manchester practice
Tell us which workstream is slipping. You will get an honest view of whether we can help and what it would take, with no obligation attached.
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