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PLenary sessions

Healthcare leaders and influencers from government, national bodies, and the frontline NHS will tackle the sector’s most pressing challenges head on, addressing what is really holding the NHS back from realising the full potential of General Practice and Community Pharmacy.

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Key themes

These highly practical, case-based, solution-focused sessions will run across three conference rooms and are structured around the following five key programme themes:

Explore real-world case studies showcasing successful partnerships between community pharmacy and general practice, delivering both clinical and financial wins. Discover how breaking down professional silos, building trust, and shifting from competition to collaboration can create tangible, locally replicable outcomes. Sessions will highlight joint approaches across medicines optimisation, medicine shortages, waste reduction, vaccinations, and long-term condition management, with GPs, nurses and community pharmacy working together, alongside opportunities for contractual alignment between general practice and community pharmacy. Learn from the National Neighbourhood Health Implementation Programme pilots and see how they are driving impact in addressing health inequalities and tackling multimorbidity.

Rising demand and pressure on general practice make collaboration with community pharmacy essential - but it must be coordinated, reliable and clinically coherent. Poorly aligned services risk duplication, fragmented care, and patient confusion, while inconsistent availability frustrates both GPs and pharmacists. This track explores how barriers between GPs and pharmacists can be dismantled to deliver sustainable, patient-centred services that free up capacity and improve access through schemes such as Pharmacy First and New Medicines Services. Sessions focus on clarifying roles, improving continuity, and building dependable pathways, while showcasing innovative pharmacy-led services, from mental health and contraception to weight management. There will also be updates on a National Community Pharmacy Prescribing Service and the evolving GP Designated Prescribing Practitioner (DPP) role.

Community pharmacy has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to shape the future of neighbourhood health - but only if its voice is heard. This stream equips community pharmacists, GPs, practice managers, nurses and other primary care professionals with the leadership, advocacy and negotiation skills needed to influence decision making and secure a seat at the design table. Strengthen and update your skills in readiness to diversify your service offering and seize new opportunities emerging from neighbourhood contracts, while exploring how to build a thriving portfolio career across community pharmacy and general practice.

Neighbourhoods will ultimately fail if the technology isn’t there to support them. This stream will look at how AI and digital health is being deployed to enable greater collaboration and real-time, communication between community pharmacy, general practice and patients, exploring challenges such as sharing medical records, interoperability, building a digital front door for community pharmacy, and the need for electronic referrals/bookings into new community pharmacy services

A series of sponsored symposia running throughout the conference, offering concise, high-quality clinical updates across priority therapy areas, including respiratory care, weight management and obesity, allergy, chronic insomnia, gastroenterology and women’s health, alongside practical skills workshops such as otoscopy. Designed for clinical pharmacists, GPs, nurses, and the wider multidisciplinary primary care team, these sessions provide highly relevant, practice-focused learning to enhance your CPD. You will gain up-to-date knowledge and practical skills to help you strengthen and diversify your services, support the shift towards delivering more care in the community, and collaborate more effectively to improve patient experience and outcomes at the heart of new neighbourhood models.

Other programme features

NPA Members’ Forum

(Afternoon of Monday 22nd June)

GP Pharmacy in Focus

(Afternoon of Monday 22nd June)

Networking Zone

programme advisory committee

Take a look at the individuals helping to shape this year's agenda.

Uniting healthcare professionals, influencers, and industry voices from across primary care, this dynamic advisory group will act as a sounding board as the programme takes shape—keeping it fresh, relevant, and grounded in real-world insight.

Building the agenda together – call for case studies

This programme is being shaped with the primary care community. We’re inviting ideas from the frontline with practical ways general practice and community pharmacy are working together to unlock new opportunities, and drive the shifts from hospital to community, analogue to digital, sickness to prevention.

Got an example of great GP–community pharmacy integration? Share it with lisathomlinson@cogora.com