Clinical Pharmacists in General Practice

This service is designed to allocate funding to GPs for utilising a (senior) clinical pharmacist through the Clinical Pharmacists in General Practice Phase 2 programme. Find out more about this service, including the benefits and how it’s commissioned and provided.

Purpose and outline

Service relates to continuation of NHS England Clinical Pharmacist in General Practice Scheme. Details of scheme previously agreed with the General Practitioners Committee.

In July 2015, NHS England launched a pilot scheme to support clinical pharmacists working in general practice. This service is to support the remainder of practices still eligible under the scheme to claim reimbursement for the clinical pharmacists recruited through the Clinical Pharmacists in General Practice Phase 2 programme.

Benefits to GPs

These include:

  • supporting patients to get the best use of their medicines and identifying medicines related issues
  • expanding the general practice team, thus allowing reallocation of general practice workload
  • increasing GP practice capacity to see and help more members of the pubic
  • ensuring safer prescribing and improving patient safety and quality of care
  • benefits to the wider healthcare system
  • improvement in the clinical and cost-effective use of medicines.

For further information, please see the Service Specification.

Enquiries should be sent to england.contactus@nhs.net for the attention of the pharmacists team.

How this service is commissioned and provided

This service is commissioned by NHS England.

This is a manual service with two components:

Upfront payment

Follow up service for on-going claims

The Upfront payment is paid once only and cannot be claimed in more than one financial year.

The indicators and fees for Component 2 (on-going claims) cover a pharmacist’s employment in year one (Y1), year two (Y2) and year three (Y3) of the Programme.

The following table shows the indicators to submit for year 1 (Y1), year 2 (Y2) and year 3 (Y3) of the pharmacist’s employment:

Indicator, Description, £ Per Item of Service

CPY1001, Y1 Senior Clinical Pharmacist 1 WTE, £3000

CPY1002, Y1 Senior Clinical Pharmacist 0.1 WTE, £300

CPY1003, Y1 Senior Clinical Pharmacist 0.2 WTE, £600

CPY1004, Y1 Senior Clinical Pharmacist 0.3 WTE, £900

CPY1005, Y1 Senior Clinical Pharmacist 0.4 WTE, £1200

CPY1006, Y1 Senior Clinical Pharmacist 0.5 WTE, £1500

CPY1007, Y1 Senior Clinical Pharmacist 0.6 WTE, £1800

CPY1008, Y1 Senior Clinical Pharmacist 0.7 WTE, £2100

CPY1009, Y1 Senior Clinical Pharmacist 0.8 WTE, £2400

CPY1010, Y1 Senior Clinical Pharmacist 0.9 WTE, £2700

CPY1011, Y1 Clinical Pharmacist 1 WTE, £2416.66

CPY1012, Y1 Clinical Pharmacist 0.1 WTE, £241.66

CPY1013, Y1 Clinical Pharmacist 0.2 WTE, £483.33

CPY1014, Y1 Clinical Pharmacist 0.3 WTE, £725

CPY1015, Y1 Clinical Pharmacist 0.4 WTE, £966.66

CPY1016, Y1 Clinical Pharmacist 0.5 WTE, £1208.33

CPY1017, Y1 Clinical Pharmacist 0.6 WTE, £1450

CPY1018, Y1 Clinical Pharmacist 0.7 WTE, £1691.66

CPY1019, Y1 Clinical Pharmacist 0.8 WTE, £1933.33

CPY1020, Y1 Clinical Pharmacist 0.9 WTE, £2,174.99

CPY2021, Y2 Senior Clinical Pharmacist 1 WTE, £2000

CPY2022, Y2 Senior Clinical Pharmacist 0.1 WTE, £200

CPY2023, Y2 Senior Clinical Pharmacist 0.2 WTE, £400

CPY2024, Y2 Senior Clinical Pharmacist, 0.3 WTE, £600

CPY2025, Y2 Senior Clinical Pharmacist 0.4 WTE, £800

CPY2026, Y2 Senior Clinical Pharmacist 0.5 WTE, £1000

CPY2027, Y2 Senior Clinical Pharmacist 0.6 WTE, £1200

CPY2028, Y2 Senior Clinical Pharmacist 0.7 WTE, £1400

CPY2029, Y2 Senior Clinical Pharmacist 0.8 WTE, £1600

CPY2030, Y2 Senior Clinical Pharmacist 0.9 WTE, £1800

CPY2031, Y2 Clinical Pharmacist 1 WTE, £1666.66

CPY2032, Y2 Clinical Pharmacist 0.1 WTE, £166.66

CPY2033, Y2 Clinical Pharmacist 0.2 WTE, £333.33

CPY2034, Y2 Clinical Pharmacist 0.3 WTE, £499.99

CPY2035, Y2 Clinical Pharmacist 0.4 WTE, £666.66

CPY2036, Y2 Clinical Pharmacist 0.5 WTE, £833.33

CPY2037, Y2 Clinical Pharmacist 0.6 WTE, £999.99

CPY2038, Y2 Clinical Pharmacist 0.7 WTE, £1166.66

CPY2039, Y2 Clinical Pharmacist 0.8 WTE, £1333.32

CPY2040, Y2 Clinical Pharmacist 0.9 WTE, £1499.99

CPY3041,  Y3 Senior Clinical Pharmacist 1 WTE, £1,083.33

CPY3042,  Y3 Senior Clinical Pharmacist 0.1 WTE, £108.33

CPY3043,  Y3 Senior Clinical Pharmacist 0.2 WTE, £216.66

CPY3044,  Y3 Senior Clinical Pharmacist 0.3 WTE , £325.00

CPY3045,  Y3 Senior Clinical Pharmacist 0.4 WTE , £433.33

CPY3046,  Y3 Senior Clinical Pharmacist 0.5 WTE, £541.66

CPY3047,  Y3 Senior Clinical Pharmacist 0.6 WTE , £650.00

CPY3048,  Y3 Senior Clinical Pharmacist 0.7 WTE, £758.33

CPY3049,  Y3 Senior Clinical Pharmacist 0.8 WTE, £866.66

CPY3050,  Y3 Senior Clinical Pharmacist 0.9 WTE, £975.00

CPY3051,  Y3 Clinical Pharmacist 1 WTE, £916.66

CPY3052,  Y3 Clinical Pharmacist 0.1 WTE, £91.66

CPY3053,  Y3 Clinical Pharmacist 0.2 WTE, £183.33

CPY3054,  Y3 Clinical Pharmacist 0.3 WTE, £275.00

CPY3055,  Y3 Clinical Pharmacist 0.4 WTE, £366.66

CPY3056,  Y3 Clinical Pharmacist 0.5 WTE, £458.33

CPY3057,  Y3 Clinical Pharmacist 0.6 WTE, £550.00

CPY3058,  Y3 Clinical Pharmacist 0.7 WTE, £641.66

CPY3059,  Y3 Clinical Pharmacist 0.8 WTE, £733.33

CPY3060,  Y3 Clinical Pharmacist 0.9 WTE, £825.00

Component 1: Clinical pharmacists in general practice up front payment 2022/23

  • Quality service start date: 1 April 2022
  • Quality service end date: 31 March 2023
  • Payment period: Annual
  • Collection frequency: Manual entry programme to be provided by CQRS
  • Manual or automatic entry: Manual
  • Included in data collection: All system suppliers (TPP, INPS, Microtest and Emis)
  • Co-commissioning: Regional Local Office/CCG
  • Service type: DES

Component 2: Clinical pharmacists in general practice 2022/23

  • Quality service start date: 1 April 2022
  • Quality service end date: 31 March 2023
  • Payment period: Monthly
  • Collection frequency: Manual entry programme to be provided by CQRS
  • Manual or automatic entry: Manual
  • Included in data collection: All system suppliers (TPP, INPS, Microtest and Emis)
  • Co-commissioning: No
  • Service type: DES

Component 3: Clinical pharmacists in general practice 2022/23

  • Quality service start date: 1 April 2022
  • Quality service end date: 31 March 2023
  • Payment period: Monthly
  • Collection frequency: Manual entry programme to be provided by CQRS
  • Manual or automatic entry: Manual
  • Included in data collection: All system suppliers (TPP, INPS, Microtest and Emis)
  • Co-commissioning: No
  • Service type: DES

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Service user guides

The Calculating Quality Reporting Service (CQRS) user guides describe how to participate, manually enter and declare achievement for this service.

Payment count/clinical codes

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