Primary Care
This five-minute brief unpacks how we compare to hiring a single independent, generalist clinical pharmacist and the additional benefits we can offer.
For the price of one pharmacist, Suvera provides an entire chronic care team that takes care of patient engagement, care coordination and condition management with none of the additional costs outlined below.
Hiring for a new role is a time-consuming and resource-intensive process. Whether you're incurring costs such as agency fees, managing job listings or conducting interviews. But when you partner with us, you not only get an entire specialised clinical team of prescribing pharmacists and pharmacy technicians experienced in long-term condition management, you get it minus the hassle of recruitment and expense that comes with it.
Associated cost if recruiting in-house: ~£4,000 one-time fee per clinician
Cost with Suvera: £0
Integrating a new clinical pharmacist into your practice team requires training, development and needless to say, ample GP supervision.
We know your GP time is stretched and appointments are scarce to say the least. So we take on complete management of chronic registers, with condition reviews carried out by our prescribing pharmacists and GP supervision provided by Suvera GPs, including weekly audits and upskilling. This both protects and creates additional clinical capacity.
Associated cost if done in-house: ~£10,000 per annum
Cost with Suvera: £0
Management of long-term conditions is all about getting patients to target and improving health outcomes.
For busy practices, there can be a lot to keep track of. Suvera helps to take that weight by providing an EMIS and SystmOne data analytics team to run searches, identify patients with missed codes and ensure optimal efficiency. And you also get a dedicated client success manager who reports on progress and ensures targets are being met.
Associated cost if done in-house: ~£5,000-£15,000 per annum
Cost with Suvera: £0
Optimally planning call and recall of patients is the foundation on which success is built in long-term condition clinics. Often this task can fall to reception or other staff members and both take up a lot of time and be tricky to get right. To support our partners, Suvera care coordinators manage this process too, conducting patient outreach, engagement and scheduling appointments based on your chosen method of recall.
We also provide additional care coordination tools. Suvera Planner helps optimise patient recall and reduce duplication. And our patient app supports multi-condition reviews with the ability to collate data for all LTCs in a single touchpoint, streamlining processes.
Associated cost if done in-house? £2,000-£5,000 per annum in operational overheads (inc. SMS costs)
Cost with Suvera: £0
Clinicians who are non-medical prescribers or who cannot manage comorbidities can lead to an additional 80 hours per month of GP time. Suvera’s care team is specially trained in multimorbidity, managing complex needs and optimising medicines with minimal task bask to partners. This both protects your existing clinical time and helps to create more of it.
Associated cost if done in-house? ~£20,000-£30,000 per annum
Cost with Suvera: £0
£50-65K for 1 generalist clinical pharmacist plus £39-65K per annum in additional costs (as outlined above).
£50-65K for an entire specialist complex care service encompassing prescribing pharmacy, care coordination, GP supervision, data analytics and customer support. It means no additional costs for you but significant additional value.
Take a look at how much Suvera could save your organisation based on your ODS/PCN code and chronic disease prevalence with our free ROI calculator.
For a free demo or complimentary data search, contact: partnerships@suvera.co.uk.
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