Healthcare Leader’s roundtable on pharmacy in the system marks the anniversary of Pharmacy First

Healthcare Leader’s latest roundtable is out now, bringing together system leaders and experts to discuss pharmacy in the system.

Healthcare Leader’s roundtables look at the core issues facing NHS leaders at integrated care boards (ICBs), the challenges they face, the solutions they’ve found and their plans for the future.

To mark the anniversary of Pharmacy First, this roundtable explores the current dynamics between the sector and the wider system.

Pharmacy leaders from NHS Black Country ICB, Arden and Gem CSU, Leicestershire and Rutland and the National Pharmacy Association (NPA) discuss the role pharmacists can play in the future of primary care.

Editor Victoria Vaughan says: ‘The pharmacy sector has faced considerable disruption in the past few years with a transfer of workforce into PCNs via the additional roles reimbursement scheme. This roundtable looks at the state of the profession and how ICB and sector leaders plan to capitalise on changes in the workforce to improve care for patients and the secure the future of the profession.’

Healthcare Leader’s roundtable series broadens our intelligence offering for ICBs includes news, views, features and reports.

In October 2024, Healthcare Leader published a roundtable report on workforce, bringing together system leaders and experts to discuss the primary care workforce.

In July 2022, clinical commissioning groups were dissolved, and their staff were transferred into ICBs. This change was made to shift the way of working from competition to collaboration and bring health and care together. ICBs also took on the role of running pharmacy, dentistry and optometry in their areas to support their aims of better health for everyone, better care for all, efficient use of NHS resources, and to enhance the NHS contribution to social and economic regeneration.

ICBs represent the NHS in the wider integrated care partnerships as part of the integrated care systems.

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