Clinical Pharmacist Support · Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Clinical Pharmacist Support for GP Practices in Sheffield
The steepest health gradient in the country runs through this city. Sheffield practices a few miles apart can face completely different medicines workloads. Our clinical pharmacists work remotely inside your own clinical system, sized to the work your list actually generates, not to a standard package.
The service is available to every practice and PCN in Sheffield. 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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Same city, very different lists
Sheffield’s practices are commissioned by NHS South Yorkshire ICB, which covers the city alongside Rotherham, Barnsley and Doncaster. The board’s four places have historically planned a good deal of their primary care work separately, so check the local priorities; they differ more than a single board suggests.
Sheffield is well known for one of the steepest health gradients of any English city, with a substantial difference in life expectancy between its east and west. For medicines work that gradient is not an abstraction: it is the difference between a list where structured reviews are routine and one where a large share of patients are on multiple medicines by middle age.
The city’s western and northern edges add a second complication, where practices serve villages in the Peak District fringe. Those lists are small, dispersed and easy to under-serve when capacity is planned centrally.
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
Where the gradient is steepest, polypharmacy starts earlier and the review list is longer. That is the work we take first.
Clinical medication reviewsHigh risk drug monitoring
High risk drug recall and chasing, carried through to completion, not merely reported, on lists where attendance is hardest to secure.
High risk drug monitoringLong term condition clinics
Remote long-term condition clinics that reach the scattered practices on the city’s western and northern edges.
Long term conditionsCQC and quality searches
Searches run and findings actioned to one standard across a network, not to whichever practice had capacity.
CQC searches and preparationNot sure where to start? Tell us which workstream hurts most and we will scope it with you, with no obligation.
Get a free scoping callSheffield, anticoagulation, and the monitoring it needs
Above-average stroke prevalence across many Sheffield practices brings more anticoagulation monitoring and secondary prevention review.
Figures are the median across GP practices in the area against the England value, from NHS Fingertips (National General Practice Profiles, QOF 2024/25). Only differences flagged as statistically significant are shown. Published NHS data about the area, not a statement about which practices we work with.
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 sized to what your list generates, not to the network average. Protocols and system access agreed.
Weeks 3 to 6
First workstream live, typically structured reviews, running to a fixed weekly schedule.
Weeks 7 to 12
Reporting on what cleared and what moved clinically, before anything else is handed over.
Fast email replies and clinical input whenever we need it. They picked up our medicines work seamlessly and delivered from day one.
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 practice sits at the harder end of the city. Will we get the same service as everyone else?
You will get more capacity, not the same amount. Scoping is against the medicines workload your list generates, which is precisely the point of not selling a fixed package.
We serve villages outside the city. Does the service reach them?
It does, and dispersal is one of the things a remote service handles better than an on-site one. There is no travel time to fund and no site that gets visited less often than the others.
Can this be funded through ARRS?
Usually, yes. ARRS funding can cover a commissioned service as well as directly employed roles, provided it meets the DES requirements. We check that fit against your PCN’s allocation as part of scoping, before you commit.
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 Sheffield 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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