Pharmacy First
Understand where live video can support your pathways, with the clinical and premises requirements clearly set out.
Explore Pharmacy FirstFor community pharmacy owners & teams
Bring a remote pharmacist into your consultation room. Support more patients through video consultations, with your team there beside them.
Connected expertise. Local care.
Your patients visit the pharmacy they know. Your team welcomes them. A GPhC-registered pharmacist joins by secure video to deliver the consultation.
Your Responsible Pharmacist stays on the premises for dispensing and supply. The remote pharmacist adds consultation capacity; they never replace your RP.
Follow a consultationThe patient and your on-site team
A pharmacist working from registered pharmacy premises
Advice, records and the appropriate outcome
Service suitability and premises requirements are reviewed before delivery.
More ways to support your patients
Explore the services that could work for your pharmacy, with the requirements and limitations close to hand.
Understand where live video can support your pathways, with the clinical and premises requirements clearly set out.
Explore Pharmacy FirstExplore remote support for medicines, contraception and other pharmacy services, with the right delivery model for each.
See NHS servicesMake more of your consultation room with consultation-led private services and appropriate prescribing safeguards.
Explore private servicesOne group. Connected sites.
For pharmacy groups
Bring your sites together with consistent configuration, reporting and clinical governance.
Start with a scoped pilot and agree the delivery model for each service before consultations begin. Your Responsible Pharmacist remains at every site, and cross-site arrangements must meet the relevant NHS service rules.
Explore the group approachConfidence comes from the detail
Find the clinical-safety evidence, data-handling information and deployment requirements your superintendent needs to assess the service.
Explore trust and clinical safetyReview the manufacturer’s clinical-safety evidence alongside your organisation’s DCB0160 deployment responsibilities.
Role-based access and multi-factor authentication support, with recording off by default and consent required when used.
Dated assurance status and the information you need to assess the service.
A useful place to start
Pharmacy First · 5 min read
Video, premises and examination requirements for Pharmacy First in England, including the checks needed before planning an off-site staffing model.
Read the guideGovernance · 5 min read
A practical readiness checklist covering service scope, workforce arrangements, clinical safety, patient support, records, access and incident handling.
Read the guideProduct · 5 min read
Check the room, device, audio, connection, record access and recovery process before offering pharmacy video consultations, using a practical readiness test.
Read the guideYour questions
The practical details, before you take the next step.
NHS services in England have different remote-delivery conditions. Pharmacy First permits suitable consultations by video, with premises requirements; NMS has specific off-site employment rules. Our proposed cross-site arrangements need service-specific confirmation. Read what the spec allows.
No. In our model your Responsible Pharmacist stays on the premises. Remote Pharmacist adds a consultation clinician; it does not replace your RP or provide remote supervision of dispensing.
Six of the seven (sinusitis, sore throat, infected insect bites, impetigo, shingles and uncomplicated UTIs) are suitable for good-quality video. Acute otitis media (earache) needs an otoscope and cannot be delivered by remote consultation alone.
GPhC-registered, appropriately indemnified pharmacists, working to a documented safe-prescribing and convert-to-face-to-face protocol aligned with the GPhC February 2025 guidance for pharmacy services provided at a distance. See our clinical-safety approach.
Explore the consultation journey, your service requirements and pilot pricing in a 20-minute walkthrough.