Your pharmacy already has the patients.
Now give it the power to prescribe.
We help independent pharmacies establish, launch and operate NHS and private prescribing services, with clinical leadership, regular prescribing sessions and a model designed to keep patients and medicine supply within the pharmacy.
Independent prescribing, built around your pharmacy.
Led by a Pharmacist Independent Prescriber.
One prescribing service. Every branch connected.
These figures describe the announced NHS funding opportunity. Eligibility and payment remain subject to the final service specification, onboarding, EPS, governance and other NHS requirements. Pharmacy Prescribing Partners does not guarantee funding. These amounts are not profit: the NHS expects the setup and infrastructure payments to contribute towards the required EPS prescribing system and associated infrastructure, and not all of this funding is necessarily available to pay the prescriber.
Build the service once.
Use it across every branch.
One shared prescribing model can support several pharmacies through a single clinical governance framework, common SOPs, shared clinical pathways, branch-level referral processes, a central booking diary, remote and in-pharmacy consultations, regular prescribing sessions, consistent patient records, medicine supply through the participating pharmacy, and branch-level performance reporting.
Select or hover a branch above to see the patient journey through the shared prescribing hub.
We help pharmacies move from providing individual services to operating a recognised local prescribing centre.
You already have
- Pharmacy First
- Pharmacy Contraception Service
- Hypertension case-finding
- Consultation rooms
- Trained pharmacy teams
- Trusted local relationships
- A large existing patient base
We help you add
- Independent prescribing capacity
- Implementation leadership
- Clinical governance
- Agreed clinical scope
- Operating procedures
- A shared booking system
- Trained staff referral pathways
- Private service design
- Effective local promotion
More than weight management
Select a category to explore what may be included. Every card opens with the presentations that may be covered, consultation requirements, clinical boundaries and likely escalation routes.
Service boundaries
The standard service does not provide:
- Emergency care
- Uncontrolled or complex long-term condition management
- Prescribing on demand
- Controlled drugs unless explicitly agreed and professionally appropriate
- Treatment without adequate clinical assessment
- Services outside the prescriber's competence
- Diagnosis or treatment where referral is more appropriate
Flexible prescribing sessions that work around the pharmacy
Sessions may include in-pharmacy or remote consultations, NHS appointments, private acute consultations, weight-management assessments, follow-up reviews, clinical queries and treatment monitoring.
Actual capacity depends on case complexity, the balance of initial and follow-up consultations, clinical record requirements, safeguarding, prescribing decisions and necessary administration.
Not every consultation results in a prescription. Prescribing follows clinical assessment in each case.
Consultation capacity calculator
Adjust the inputs to see an illustrative planning estimate for your pharmacy or group.
Percentages are automatically balanced to total 100%.
This is a planning estimate, not a guaranteed appointment volume. Safe capacity depends on clinical complexity and the time required for records, prescribing decisions, communication, safeguarding and follow-up.
The patient stays with your pharmacy
Patient enters or contacts the pharmacy
Pharmacy staff recognise an appropriate presentation
Patient is booked into the prescribing service
Consultation occurs remotely or in the pharmacy
Treatment is prescribed only where clinically appropriate
Prescription is directed to the participating pharmacy
Medicine is supplied by the pharmacy
Follow-up remains connected to the pharmacy
- Retain patients who might otherwise be referred elsewhere
- Keep appropriate medicine supply within the pharmacy
- Use existing consultation rooms more effectively
- Create a broader local clinical identity
- Give multiple branches access to prescribing capacity
- Develop both NHS and private services
- Add recurring weight-management activity
- Generate acute private consultation opportunities
- Support staff development
- Create consistent clinical governance across the group
- Build a recognised local alternative to anonymous online services
Prepare now for the next stage of NHS community pharmacy
Pharmacies may already earn some or all of the Pharmacy First income described below. This service does not claim credit for existing activity. The value lies in preparing the pharmacy for prescribing, adding prescribing capacity and helping it use the new pathways.
Select the number of participating pharmacies to see the illustrative figures.
| Activity band | Monthly fixed payment | Per-consultation fee |
|---|---|---|
| 20 to 29 qualifying clinical pathway consultations | £500 fixed payment | £17 per eligible Pharmacy First consultation |
| 30 or more qualifying clinical pathway consultations | £1,000 fixed payment |
Prescribing-only Pharmacy First consultations are expected to count towards the monthly minimum activity requirement.
Payments are subject to the applicable service rules, caps, declarations and eligibility requirements. Pharmacy Prescribing Partners does not guarantee funding, participation, or any financial outcome, and does not describe these figures as profit. The latest NHS and Community Pharmacy England guidance must always be checked before launch.
Add a private prescribing service that belongs to the pharmacy
The private model can cover acute and short-term conditions, uncomplicated infections, appropriate pain and inflammation, suitable skin, eye, ear and respiratory presentations, weight management, follow-up and monitoring, and agreed pharmacy-specific priorities.
The calculator is illustrative only. Actual contribution depends on consultation charges, medicine acquisition costs, dispensing margin, staffing, payment fees, wastage, follow-up workload and other direct and indirect costs. £15 is a default illustrative figure, not a guaranteed profit.
From idea to live service in four weeks
The private service may be capable of launching within four weeks where the pharmacy provides timely decisions, systems and resources. NHS activation remains subject to national requirements, NHS onboarding, approved EPS systems and other external dependencies.
Design your pharmacy prescribing model
Recommended model
Complete the choices on the left to generate a recommended prescribing model for your pharmacy or group.
Engagement options
Clinical experience. Commercial awareness. Community pharmacy understanding.
Our lead Pharmacist Independent Prescriber has been a pharmacist since 1983, with extensive community pharmacy experience alongside senior NHS pharmacy leadership experience.
That background includes commissioning, clinical service implementation and clinical governance, working closely with pharmacy contractors and NHS systems. That combination brings a practical understanding of the challenges facing independent pharmacy owners, and a focus on services that are clinically sound, operationally workable and commercially sensible.
The local pharmacy that establishes prescribing first has a head start.
Patients increasingly expect accessible clinical care.
Independent prescribing expands what a pharmacy may be able to resolve.
Small groups may not need a full-time prescriber at every branch.
One shared model can provide access across several locations.
Existing staff and consultation rooms become more useful.
The pharmacy can retain more of the patient pathway.
Private services can complement NHS activity.
A recognised local clinical identity is harder for anonymous online providers to replicate.
Illustrative service dashboard
All figures on this dashboard are fictional and for demonstration only. They do not represent any actual pharmacy, group or NHS data.
Consultations by type (monthly, fictional demo data)
Monthly growth (fictional demo data)
Questions pharmacy owners ask
Let's build the prescribing service around your pharmacy
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What happens next
Every enquiry is reviewed personally by our clinical lead. An initial owner discussion is typically 20 to 30 minutes, by phone or video, focused on your pharmacy or group, your current services and what a prescribing model could look like.
Direct contact
bp3327@gmail.com
Your pharmacy already has the trust, the team and the patients.
Now build the prescribing service that keeps them with you.