PCN Pharmacy Services
PCN Pharmacy Services
Supporting PCNs with a structured service delivery to optimise patient care
Our management support service for Primary Care Networks (PCNs) provides extra assistance and strategic operational oversight to ensure consistent, quality outputs across member practices.
Our team offers support to PCNs to drive these results that enhance patient care. We deliver a governed clinical pharmacy service with case discussion, quality oversight and assurance in line with NHS expectations.
How Will This Help My Practice?
Virtual Pharmacist’s clinical team offers management support for PCNs in order to reduce pressure on Clinical Directors. This helping hand across GP practice groups drives enhanced patient outcomes.
Needs-Matched, Turnkey Support
Service Governance & Quality Assurance
Optimised Use of ARRS Roles
“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.”
“Fast email replies and clinical input whenever we need it. They picked up our medicines work seamlessly and delivered from day one.”
“Excellent service from start to finish. Easy to reach, quick to reply, and they clearly know NHS workflows inside out. We couldn’t recommend the team more highly.”
How network-level medicines support works
Why scope at network level rather than practice by practice
When a workstream is scoped once for the whole network, the protocol is agreed once, the audit runs once, and the reporting arrives in one shape. That is the efficient way to run it: practice-by-practice arrangements usually mean the same problem gets solved several times over, in slightly different ways.
Sizing capacity so every practice gets what it needs
A shared protocol is easy to agree across a network. Prevalence, list turnover and deprivation still vary sharply between practices in the same PCN, so we size the volume per site while keeping one standard across all of them. That is what makes network-level commissioning work well in practice, not just look tidy on paper.
Working across more than one clinical system
Networks are rarely uniform, and that is fine. We work inside EMIS, SystmOne, Vision and Medicus, so your network does not need to standardise its software before it can standardise its medicines work. Access is arranged through your existing systems, with nothing new to install.
What happens when someone is unavailable
Cover is our responsibility, not yours. Sickness, leave and turnover sit with us as the provider, which is the practical difference between commissioning a service and filling a role. Your workstream keeps running to the agreed schedule regardless of who is available in any given week.
Read our clinical governance and data security framework, or tell us which workstream you would like covered.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is a PCN pharmacist?
We deliver medicines optimisation across Primary Care Networks, taking responsibility for the quality of that service. Our team of PCN pharmacists will support GP practices within the network to improve patient care while significantly reducing workloads.
How do you coordinate work across multiple practices in a PCN?
