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Women’s Health Clinic

What is a Women’s Health Clinic?

A specialised healthcare service focusing on supporting women’s health concerns and long-term complex conditions.

Virtual Pharmacist provides pharmacist-led women’s health clinic services covering HRT, contraceptive pill checks, hormone management, postpartum medication reviews, cycle-related concerns, and long-term medication safety. Our pharmacists complete these safety and treatment assessments remotely, considering all factors to improve both patient outcomes and practice workloads.

How Will This Help
My Practice?

Our specialist pharmacists deliver complete, structured, and remote women’s health reviews to support GP practice teams on a hybrid service model.

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Improves patient treatment and satisfaction

Offering flexible, remote services to suit the lifestyles of all female patients.

Solves specialist workforce shortages

Providing instant access to specially trained clinicians.

Reduces pressure of GPs and nurses

Delivering remote management of routine HRT and pill checks frees up onsite appointment availability.

Ensures best-practice clinical compliance

Aligning with NICE, FSRH, and BMS guidelines for safety and hormone management.

Optimises long-term medication safety

Proactively assessing all risks, side effects, and patient medical history.

Delivers auditable, CQC-ready documentation

Ensuring accurate SNOMED coding and compressive recording everytime.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Our pharmacists are specially trained in women’s health to review, optimise and prescribe for this service. Conditions that our team can review include:

  • Menopause and perimenopause
  • Hormone replacement therapy (HRT)
  • Pill checks of progesterone only pills (POP) and combined oral contraceptive pill (COC)
  • Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) and Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD)
  • Medication reviews for treatment of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS)
  • Acne related to contraception
  • Management of Genitourinary Syndrome of Menopause (GSM), or vaginal atrophy
  • Postpartum medication advice
  • Chronic disease medication interactions

Our women’s health review service is remotely completed by our expert team of pharmacists. This is done either by phone or video call, as the patient requests. 

We will ask practices to take blood pressure or BMI if the readings are either not available from the patient, or are clinically concerning. This remote hybrid service reduces administrative burden for practices and onsite appointment numbers.

During the appointment, one of our pharmacists will get in touch with the patient either by phone or video call. They will have a conversation about the contraceptive pill that the patient has been taking. Within this review, our pharmacists will discuss contraceptive history, risk factor screening, side effects, counselling, and medication assessments. 

Other safety checks performed include:

  • VTE risk factors 
  • Smoking status
  • Migraine with aura assessment
  • BMI and blood pressure readings 
  • Medication interactions 
  • New diagnoses that may contradict COC 
  • Postpartum status 
  • Missed pill management
In the case that our pharmacists identify concerns with results of the women’s health review, they will book patients into the practice for blood pressure and BMI readings, as well as further assessments if contradictions appear. These are highlighted clearly within SystmOne or EMIS.
Yes, our independent prescribers can continue existing contraception, switch to safer alternatives or between COC and POP where necessary, advise on missed pill rules, and manage side effects. This is providing that blood pressure and BMI data is available, and that risk factors are considered safe.
Yes, this review service ensures that reproductive health needs are discussed, safeguarding prompts are completed, and that correct SNOMED coding is added. Documentation of smoking status, contraception reviews, blood pressure and BMI recordings (or arrangements to do so) is also logged and completed.
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