Clinical Pharmacist Support · Oldham, Greater Manchester
Clinical Pharmacist Support for GP Practices in Oldham
Care home rounds, housebound reviews and a diabetes register that keeps growing. Oldham combines a diabetes register above the England average with a substantial care home and housebound population up towards the moors. Our clinical pharmacists take on the reviews both of those generate, working remotely inside your own clinical system.
The service is available to every practice and PCN in Oldham, 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 Oldham.
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The reviews that take longest are the ones we take first
Oldham’s practices are commissioned by NHS Greater Manchester ICB, where the borough operates as one of ten places with its own locality arrangements.
Two things drive the medicines week here. Diabetes is recorded above the England average, and the borough carries a sizeable care home and housebound population, particularly in the villages running up to the Saddleworth moors. A care home round and a housebound review are the two pieces of work that take the most clinical time per patient and are the first to be deferred when a practice is busy.
They are also the two we would rather take. A remote pharmacist working inside your system can prepare, complete and record those reviews without travelling to a single address, and the same is true for the diabetes clinics behind them.
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.
Structured medication reviews
Care home rounds and housebound reviews prepared, completed and recorded, which is the longest work per patient in the borough.
Clinical medication reviewsLong term condition clinics
Remote diabetes, hypertension, asthma and COPD clinics run to your protocols.
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 monitoringDischarge and clinical letters
Hospital changes reconciled and actioned, including for residents moving between home and care settings.
Discharge reconciliationNot 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 Oldham
These published figures provide context for medicines services. They describe registered practice populations, not all residents of Oldham.
QOF 2024/25; indicator 241; 28 practices with data10.14% practice median England: 7.89%; difference: +2.25 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, including which care homes and housebound lists are in it. Protocols and access follow.
Weeks 3 to 6
First workstream live, most often the care home and housebound reviews.
Weeks 7 to 12
Reporting on completion by setting, so you can see the homes and the practice lists separately.
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?
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 review care home residents without visiting them?
Where clinically appropriate, reviews can be delivered remotely with the patient involved and carers or care-home staff included as appropriate. The clinician uses the record and relevant clinical information, agrees a medicines plan and documents follow-up. Physical examination or further assessment is arranged through the agreed local pathway when needed.
Can you run diabetes clinics remotely?
Yes. Remote long-term condition clinics cover diabetes, hypertension, asthma and COPD, run to your protocols and recorded in your own system.
Can a whole PCN commission this together?
Yes, and care home work is one of the clearest cases for it, because homes often take residents from several practices in the same network.
Who holds the clinical governance?
We do, including supervision, CPD and indemnity for everyone delivering the work.
See what a managed service could take off your Oldham 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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