Pharmacy Services Physical Health

The Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced provider to deliver comprehensive Physical Pharmacy Services across its diverse physical health portfolio, encompassing community‑based care, outpatient management, rehabilitation, intermediate care and inpatient settings. The contract is focused on ensuring the safe, effective, and patient‑centred provision of pharmaceutical expertise to support high‑quality clinical care and the Trust’s broader health objectives. Key elements of the service include medicines management, optimisation, reconciliation, prescribing support and staff education, all embedded within robust clinical governance and statutory compliance frameworks.

The successful contractor will be responsible for delivering a full range of pharmacy functions that support multidisciplinary teams across multiple care settings. This will involve expert clinical pharmacy input, governance and assurance activities, audit, quality improvement work and specialist pharmaceutical advice. The service model must maintain resilience and flexibility, adapting to evolving patient needs, workforce challenges, regulatory demands and contemporary pharmacy practice developments throughout the contract term. Collaboration with clinical teams and system partners, ensuring continuity of care and delivery of safe medicines, will be central to the role.

Prospective providers must demonstrate extensive NHS or equivalent healthcare experience, a skilled and collaborative workforce, and a commitment to innovation, patient outcomes, sustainability and social value. The contractor should exhibit strong clinical governance, medicines safety arrangements and demonstrate robust digital capabilities with comprehensive reporting and data management processes.

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust ("the Authority") is seeking to appoint a suitably qualified and experienced provider for the delivery of Physical Pharmacy Services across its Physical Health services within Gloucestershire.
The Authority delivers a diverse range of community-based, outpatient, rehabilitation, intermediate care, and inpatient physical healthcare services. The successful contractor will be required to provide a comprehensive, safe, effective, and patient-centred pharmacy service that supports the delivery of high-quality clinical care, medicines optimisation, and statutory compliance across the Trust's physical health portfolio.
The service will be expected to provide expert pharmacy support, including but not limited to medicines management, medicines optimisation, clinical pharmacy input, governance and assurance activities, medicines reconciliation, prescribing support, staff training and education, audit and quality improvement activities, and specialist pharmaceutical advice to multidisciplinary teams.
The Authority is seeking a provider that can demonstrate:
Extensive experience in delivering pharmacy services within NHS and/or comparable healthcare environments;
Strong clinical governance and medicines safety arrangements;
- A skilled and resilient workforce capable of supporting services across multiple care settings;
- The ability to work collaboratively with clinical teams and system partners;
- Innovative approaches to medicines optimisation and service improvement;
- Robust digital capabilities, reporting arrangements, and data management processes; and
- A commitment to delivering high-quality patient outcomes, value for money, sustainability, and social value.
The contract will support the Authority's strategic objectives by ensuring that patients receive safe, effective, and timely pharmaceutical care, while promoting the appropriate use of medicines and supporting service efficiency across physical healthcare pathways.
The procurement will be conducted through an open and transparent competitive process. Tender submissions will be evaluated on the basis of the Most Advantageous Tender (MAT), taking into account quality, service delivery, clinical governance, social value, and commercial considerations. Full details of the evaluation methodology and award criteria will be provided within the procurement documentation.
The successful provider will be expected to mobilise and maintain a service model that is responsive to changing patient needs, workforce challenges, regulatory requirements, and developments in pharmacy practice throughout the contract term.
Further information relating to the scope of services, contract requirements, performance standards, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), and contractual arrangements will be included within the Invitation to Tender documentation.
Registration and documentation will be available for suppliers on Monday 21st September 2026.

Contract location: UKK13
Communication: https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome
This is a recurrent procurement: Yes
Enquiry deadline: 2026-10-16T17:00:00+01:00
Submission address and any special instructions: https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome
Tenders may be submitted electronically: allowed
Award decision date (estimated): 2027-01-28T23:59:59Z
Recurring procurement:
Publication date of next tender notice (estimated): 2027-01-29T23:59:59Z

Lot: 1
Lot value (estimated)
36.103.000,00 GBP excluding VAT
43.323.600,00 GBP including VAT
This contract is subject to renewal: Yes
Description of renewals: 2 year extension option.
Information about options. Options: Yes

Award criteria:

Name	Type	Weighting
Quality	quality	50%
Commerical	cost	40%
Social Value	quality	10%

Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: En