PSN was built to give GP practices reliable access to experienced Independent Prescribing Pharmacists, without the uncertainty, recruitment pressure or management burden that often comes with traditional staffing.
Pharmacist Support Network was created after seeing first-hand how much pressure General Practice was under. Practices needed experienced clinical pharmacists, but recruitment, supervision, annual leave, sickness cover and service continuity were becoming increasingly difficult to manage.
PSN was founded to solve that problem differently. Not as a traditional agency, but as a fully managed pharmacist workforce partner that becomes an extension of the practice team.
Our model gives practices the flexibility to access experienced Independent Prescribing Pharmacists when and how they require them, while PSN manages the operational and clinical support behind the scenes.
To support GP practices, PCNs, ICBs and healthcare providers with reliable, experienced and fully managed Independent Prescribing Pharmacist support that improves capacity, strengthens clinical delivery and gives organisations confidence in their workforce.
Nafes is the CEO and Founder of Pharmacist Support Network and leads the operational direction, client delivery and continued growth of PSN.
With more than 20 years’ experience across pharmacy and primary care, he has worked at every level of the system. He spent over a decade in community pharmacy, progressing through roles including Pharmacy Technician, Pharmacy Manager and Area Support Manager, before moving into primary care.
Over the following decade, Nafes worked as a Pharmacy Technician within a Primary Care Network and later spent three years managing a GP surgery. That experience gave him a first-hand understanding of the pressures facing General Practice, from workforce shortages and recruitment to governance, service delivery and the day-to-day management of clinical teams.
For the past five years, he has focused solely on building PSN into a trusted, fully managed pharmacist provider. The model reflects everything he learned along the way: experienced pharmacists, properly supported and integrated into the practice team, without the usual recruitment and management burden.
Uzmah is the CEO and Group Lead Independent Prescribing Pharmacist at Pharmacist Support Network, providing clinical leadership and overseeing the quality, safety and consistency of every service delivered by PSN.
A qualified Independent Prescribing Pharmacist with over 18 years' experience, Uzmah has spent eight years working in community pharmacy before moving into primary care, where she has worked exclusively within General Practice for the last ten years.
Her extensive clinical experience has provided a deep understanding of long-term condition management, medicines optimisation and the day-to-day demands placed on pharmacists working within GP practices and Primary Care Networks.
Uzmah leads the clinical development, supervision and ongoing support of the PSN pharmacist team, ensuring every pharmacist is equipped to deliver safe, high-quality patient care while maintaining the clinical standards that practices expect from PSN.
We do more than place pharmacists. We manage the service, support the team and give healthcare organisations confidence that the work will be delivered safely and consistently.
Every pharmacist has General Practice experience and understands the pace, systems and clinical expectations of primary care.
We manage recruitment, supervision, annual leave, sickness and ongoing support, reducing the operational burden on practices.
Our pharmacists work as an extension of your team, adapting to your systems, priorities and way of working.
Over the last five years, PSN has grown from an idea into a trusted remote clinical pharmacist provider supporting GP practices, PCNs and healthcare organisations across England.
PSN’s future is focused on building the most reliable, clinically supported remote pharmacist workforce for primary care.
We plan to continue expanding our support for GP practices, PCNs, ICBs and private healthcare providers, while maintaining the standards, supervision and personal service that made PSN trusted in the first place.
The goal is simple: to give healthcare organisations access to pharmacist support that is experienced, flexible and built around their requirements.
