Clinical Pharmacist Support · Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Clinical Pharmacist Support for GP Practices in Sheffield
Capacity sized to your own list, in a city where no two are alike. Sheffield practices a few miles apart can carry completely different medicines workloads. Our clinical pharmacists work remotely inside your own clinical system, sized to the work your list actually generates, so you buy what your practice needs.
The service is available to every practice and PCN in Sheffield, 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 Sheffield.
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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 we check your place’s local priorities at scoping; they differ more than a single board suggests.
Sheffield practices a few miles apart carry very different medicines workloads, so we size the work to each practice’s own list, not a city average. 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. Sizing the work to each list is what makes a single arrangement fit both.
The city’s western and northern edges add another dimension, where practices serve villages on the Peak District fringe. Remote delivery reaches those small, dispersed lists as reliably and as often as the ones in the middle of the city.
What you buy is a managed service: supervision, cover 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
Where the gradient is widest, polypharmacy starts earlier and the review list is longer. That is the work we take first.
Clinical medication reviewsHigh risk drug monitoring
Medicine-specific monitoring, recall and follow-up, with overdue or concerning findings escalated under the agreed protocol.
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, whatever capacity each practice has that month.
CQC searches and preparationNot 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 Sheffield
These published figures provide context for medicines services. They describe registered practice populations, not all residents of Sheffield.
QOF 2024/25; indicator 212; 77 practices with data2.39% practice median England: 1.89%; difference: +0.50 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 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?
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 practice has a more complex list than most in the city. Will we get the same service as everyone else?
You will get more capacity, because scoping is against the medicines workload your list generates. Sizing to the work rather than to a fixed package is the whole point.
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?
Often, yes. ARRS funding can cover a commissioned service as well as directly employed roles. We check the fit against the current rules and 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 your practice or PCN, clinical system and the workstream you would like covered first. We will scope the workload and local arrangements with you and explain what we can take on, with no obligation attached.
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