NHS Pharmacy Services Provider for Physical Healthcare

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a qualified pharmacy services provider to deliver comprehensive physical health pharmacy services across Gloucestershire. The provider will support community-based, outpatient, rehabilitation, intermediate care, and inpatient physical healthcare services. Key responsibilities include medicines management, medicines optimisation, clinical pharmacy support, governance and assurance, medicines reconciliation, prescribing support, staff training, audit and quality improvement activities, and specialist pharmaceutical advice to multidisciplinary teams. The successful provider must demonstrate extensive NHS or comparable healthcare experience, strong clinical governance and medicines safety arrangements, a skilled workforce capable of supporting multiple care settings, collaborative working with clinical teams and system partners, innovative approaches to service improvement, robust digital capabilities and data management, and commitment to delivering high-quality patient outcomes, value for money, and sustainability. The procurement will use a competitive tendering process based on the Most Advantageous Tender (MAT) evaluation criteria, considering quality, service delivery, clinical governance, social value, and commercial factors. The provider must be responsive to changing patient needs, workforce challenges, regulatory requirements, and developments in pharmacy practice. Registration and procurement documentation will be available from Monday 21st September 2026.