Last chance to register for the Community Pharmacy & General Practice Conference

With major changes to the community pharmacy contract set to increase collaboration between pharmacies and general practice, healthcare professionals have a final opportunity to secure their place at the inaugural Community Pharmacy & General Practice Conference later this month.

The two-day event will bring together GPs, community pharmacists, and primary care leaders, to explore how closer working can help address growing pressures across NHS services.

The conference comes at a significant moment for primary care. Recent changes announced as part of the 2026/27 Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework are designed to reduce referrals back to GPs and support a greater clinical role for community pharmacy. As these changes begin to take shape, the conference will provide a unique forum for stakeholders across primary care to discuss how collaboration can be strengthened in practice.

Dr Dupe Akomolafe, GP and medical director at Christchurch Health Centre, said: ‘For the first time in the history of the NHS, primary care stakeholders will come together at scale to collaborate, rethink workload and design solutions that actually work. This isn’t another talk shop – it’s a call to action. Let’s put heads together and secure the future of our NHS.’

Akomolafe’s comments reflect the aim of the conference to move beyond discussion and focus on practical, system-wide change across primary care services.

Among the speakers are leading healthcare voices, including Dr Steve Taylor, GP co-lead at the Doctors’ Association UK, and Dr Adrian Hayter, medical director for clinical policy at the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP).

Dr Taylor will explore how general practices and community pharmacies can work together more effectively on vaccination programmes through shared technology, integrated communication and aligned incentives.

Meanwhile, Dr Hayter will examine how GPs and community pharmacists can collaborate with integrated care boards on medicines optimisation, including repeat prescribing, deprescribing, medicines waste reduction and future formulary development.

Other speakers include Government adviser on neighbourhood health Sir John Oldham and RCGP president Professor Victoria Tzortziou Brown.

As primary care evolves and community pharmacists take on an expanded role as independent prescribers, the conference offers a timely opportunity to hear from leaders at the forefront of change and contribute to shaping the future of integrated care.

Registration closes soon. Secure your place at the Community Pharmacy & General Practice Conference today.