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. 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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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 widest 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. 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, 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
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
High risk drug recall and chasing carried through to completion, including on the 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, 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 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, 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?
Usually, 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 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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