Long-Term Conditions Clinics

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Long-Term Conditions Clinics

What is a Long-Term
Conditions Clinic?

A specialist-led monitoring and condition management service for patients with chronic health conditions.
Virtual Pharmacist delivers a highly efficient and safe long-term condition (LTC) clinic service in conjunction with practices carrying out physical examinations. Our trained pharmacists remotely complete the clinical decision-making, medication optimisation, monitoring interpretation, QOF coding, and safety work. This hybrid service is hugely beneficial to both patient outcomes and practice workload.

How Will This Help
My Practice?

Our expert pharmacists provide structured medication reviews, monitoring and management services of LTCs in remote settings, strengthening practice handling of these conditions for its patients.

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Improves patient outcomes

Utilising specially trained pharmacists with frequent, in-depth clinical reviews.

Reduces GP workload by delivering LTC reviews remotely

Removes the need for additional in-practice clinic space.

Environmentally sustainable approach

Supporting NHS net zero ambitions with digital-first LTC management.

Supports QOF and SNOMED standards

Improving the quality of reviews, monitoring and treatments.

Improves safety and medicines optimisation

Identifying high-risk medicines, optimising dosages, and deprescribing where appropriate.

Aligns with local guidelines

Following NICE guidance, ICB pathways, MHRA alerts and safety requirements.

How Does Virtual Pharmacist Work?

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Take a look through our services to find out which one works best to support your practice’s needs. 
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Submit an enquiry
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We’ll be in touch within one working day to introduce you to our managed clinical pharmacy service and how it works for your practice.

Frequently Asked Questions

Our pharmacists are highly trained in LTC treatments to produce better patient outcomes. This service includes our pharmacists handling the following:

  • Annual asthma reviews
  • COPD reviews
  • Type 2 diabetes medicines optimisation
  • Hypertension reviews
  • CVD prevention and lipid optimisation
  • CKD staging and monitoring
  • Management of thyroid issues, such as hypothyroidism
  • Monitoring of medication to treat mental health conditions, such as SSRIs, antipsychotics, and lithium
  • Monitoring of high-risk medicines, such as DOACs and lithium
  • Chronic pain
Our independent prescribers can initiate, titrate, deprescribe or switch medicines when clinically appropriate, within their competence and the agreed service protocol. Decisions outside that scope are escalated to the practice.

Our LTC clinic service is carried out remotely by our expert team of pharmacists. Consultations use phone or video where clinically suitable, taking account of the patient’s preferences and accessibility needs. All documentation and prescribing happens directly in whichever clinical system your practice uses: EMIS, SystmOne, Vision or Medicus. 

Remote reviews can reduce demand for clinic space. The practice team still provides physical examinations, measurements or other in-person assessments when needed, alongside support for escalated or complex issues.

Yes, this service offers targeted programmes to help practices: 

  • Work through outstanding asthma and COPD reviews 
  • Reduce uncontrolled diabetic cohorts 
  • Tidy hypertension registers 
  • Review lipid management and cardiovascular risk where appropriate 
  • Align CKD coding 
  • Work through frailty and polypharmacy lists
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Get In Touch

Call us0113 871 5065Mon - Fri: 8am - 6pmEmail us[email protected]Write to usBramwell Rd, Allerton Bywater, Castleford WF10 2GQ

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