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GP Practice Pharmacist Support
Lightening GP Workload. Improving Prescribing. Enhancing Outcomes
GP Practice Pharmacist Support
- Clinical pharmacists embedded directly into your practice or PCN team
- Safe, efficient clinical support aligned with NHS priorities
- Scalable, bespoke, crafted service tailored to your patient population
What Is a GP Practice Pharmacist?
A GP practice pharmacist is a clinically trained expert embedded into general practice teams to support prescribing, manage complex medication issues, and improve care quality. Working closely with GPs and primary care teams, they deliver structured medication reviews, manage repeat prescriptions, and support chronic disease pathways all within the framework of primary care. Their presence helps reduce workload, improve patient outcomes, and ensure compliance with NHS priorities.
Core Responsibilities in Your GP Practice
Our pharmacists work as an extension of your in-practice team, delivering expert GP pharmacist support that enhances medication safety, streamlines processes, and frees up GP time. They focus on both clinical and operational priorities to improve care and reduce pressure on your workforce.
What our GP pharmacists do:
- Conduct structured medication reviews (SMRs) and polypharmacy checks
- Manage high-risk medications and identify potential drug interactions
- Support chronic disease pathways for conditions like diabetes and hypertension (within their scope of competence)
- Handle day-to-day prescription queries and reauthorisations
- Assist with QoF audits and ensure prescribing is CQC-compliant
- Carry out discharge reconciliation and update medication records accordingly
- Review and improve repeat prescribing systems for safety and efficiency
- Provide one-to-one patient consultations and medication counselling
- Help prevent avoidable hospital admissions through targeted interventions
This hands-on support transforms the way GP practices and PCNs manage medication, drive safer prescribing, and deliver measurable improvements in patient care.
Tailored GP Pharmacist Services for Practices and PCNs
At Core Prescribing Solutions, we deliver flexible pharmacist services in GP practices, designed to fit around your team, patient population, and care priorities. Whether you need part-time, full-time, or shared GP pharmacist integration across your PCN, we’ll match you with experienced professionals who work within your systems and deliver measurable value from day one.
Medication Management
Our pharmacists manage the full prescribing cycle, from structured medication reviews (SMRs) to repeat prescription oversight ensuring safer, more efficient medication management in primary care.
Long-Term Condition Support
We help manage patients with chronic conditions such as asthma, hypertension, and diabetes (within their clinical competence), reducing complications, improving adherence, and supporting long-term care planning.
Audit and Compliance Support
Our pharmacists contribute to QoF, IIF and DES targets, complete audit documentation, and ensure your practice meets CQC-compliant prescribing standards.
Patient Education and Consultations
We provide direct support for complex medication queries, enhancing health literacy and enabling patients to manage their treatment plans better.
Workflow Optimisation
We assess and improve internal prescribing systems, identifying risks, reducing duplication, and supporting the smarter use of digital tools, such as EPS and ERD.
Practice-Level Impact – What You Can Expect
Our embedded GP pharmacist support delivers more than just clinical expertise it brings measurable improvements across patient safety, operational efficiency, and practice sustainability. Whether you’re tackling growing workloads or aiming to enhance compliance, the impact is immediate and practical.
| Practice Benefits | Patient Benefits |
| Reduces prescribing burden on GPs | Improved understanding of medications |
| Improves compliance with QoF and CQC | Safer prescribing and reduced side effects |
| Streamlines prescription workflows | Faster access to long-term condition reviews |
| Enhances audit readiness and documentation | Better adherence and self-management |
| Cost-effective alternative to locum or full-time hires | Fewer medicine-related complications |
Why Choose Core Prescribing Solutions?
At Core Prescribing Solutions, we deliver pharmacist support that’s clinically robust and fully operationally supported. Our service is trusted by GP practices, PCNs, and federations nationally for one reason: We make pharmacist integration simple, scalable, and effective.
What do PCN’s say about our clinical services?
Great communication throughout the service…
The GPs especially Duty doctors has seen a great difference int the amount of medication related work that gets allocated to them.
Our pharmacists via Core Prescribing Solutions are great, upon learning the weird and wonderful ways each Practice works they have really been brilliant in delivering great Clinical Pharmacist support.
Great communication throughout the service, really good with wanting to work with the Practices/ PCN to suit needs of the Practices.
D.C (PCN Operations Manager)
Contact Core Prescribing Solutions
Phone: 01274 442076
Email: info@coreprescribingsolutions.co.uk
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