Clinical Pharmacist Support · Sunderland, Tyne and Wear
Clinical Pharmacist Support for GP Practices in Sunderland
Support for long-term condition reviews and monitoring to an agreed schedule. Sunderland records blood pressure, respiratory disease and diabetes all above the England average. Our clinical pharmacists take that combined long-term condition workload on remotely, inside your own clinical system, with cover held by us.
The service is available to every practice and PCN in Sunderland, 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 Sunderland.
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A city where long-term conditions overlap in the same patients
Sunderland’s practices are commissioned by NHS North East and North Cumbria ICB, with the city operating as its own place within that board and a long history of planning primary care locally.
Three registers run above the England average here at once: blood pressure, respiratory disease and diabetes. They overlap in the same patients more often than not, which is what makes a structured review in this city longer, more clinically useful and harder to fit into a normal day.
Work like that is exactly what a dedicated pharmacist service is for. The reviews get booked, worked and recorded to a schedule, and the monitoring behind them is chased to completion rather than reported as outstanding.
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
Structured reviews where several conditions interact, including the housebound and care home lists.
Clinical medication reviewsLong term condition clinics
Remote COPD, asthma, hypertension and diabetes clinics, with COPD, hypertension and diabetes all running above the national picture here.
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
Medicines changes in discharge and clinic letters reviewed, reconciled and actioned where appropriate within the agreed response times, with unresolved concerns escalated.
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 Sunderland
These published figures provide context for medicines services. They describe registered practice populations, not all residents of Sunderland.
QOF 2024/25; indicator 219; 27 practices with data18.79% practice median England: 15.23%; difference: +3.56 percentage points
QOF 2024/25; indicator 253; 27 practices with data3.33% practice median England: 1.89%; difference: +1.44 percentage points
QOF 2024/25; indicator 241; 27 practices with data8.87% practice median England: 7.89%; difference: +0.98 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 against your registers rather than your headcount. Protocols and access follow.
Weeks 3 to 6
First workstream live to a weekly schedule, usually reviews or respiratory clinics.
Weeks 7 to 12
Reporting on what was completed and what changed clinically, before anything else is added.
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 patients often have several conditions at once. Can you work at that level?
Yes, and it is the work we would rather take. Reviews where conditions interact are the longest to do properly and the most useful to a practice when someone else has the time for them.
Can you run COPD and asthma clinics remotely?
Yes. Remote long-term condition clinics cover COPD, asthma, hypertension and diabetes, run to your protocols.
What happens when your pharmacist is on leave?
Cover is our responsibility. The workstream keeps running to the agreed schedule regardless of who is available in a given week.
How quickly can you start?
Typically a few weeks, most of it agreeing scope and protocols.
See what a managed service could take off your Sunderland 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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