
the programme

day 1
| Sunday, June 21, 2026 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM | Olivier Picard, Chair, National Pharmacy Association Gemma Collins, Director of Content and Editorial, Cogora Sukhi Basra, Vice Chair, National Pharmacy Association Dr Richard Vautrey, GP Partner, Leeds, Former President, RCGP, Past Chair, BMA's GP Committee Steve Gilbert OBE, Patient with Lived Experience of Serious Mental Illness & Racial Equalities Campaigner | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11:55 AM - 12:40 PM | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1:50 PM - 2:30 PM | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 3:45 PM - 4:15 PM | Olivier Picard, Chair, National Pharmacy Association Dr Dupé Akomolafe, GP and Medical Director, Christchurch Health Centre Baba Akomolafe, Superintendent Pharmacist and Director, Christchurch Pharmacy and Clinics, Essex Conor Price, Chief Executive, Community Pharmacy London Lisa Harrod-Rothwell, CEO, Londonwide LMCs | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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day 2
| Monday, June 22, 2026 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9:30 AM - 10:20 AM | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10:25 AM - 11:05 AM | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11:05 AM - 11:35 AM | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 12:15 PM - 12:45 PM | Dr Dupé Akomolafe, GP and Medical Director, Christchurch Health Centre James Davies, Director of Research and Insights, Community Pharmacy England Tracy Dell, Tracy Dell, Locum Practice Manager and Primary Care Trainer, PMA Lucy Brotherton, Deputy Director of Nursing and Allied Health Professionals, Symphony Healthcare Services | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2:00 PM - 2:40 PM | 14:00 - 14:20 The landscape for pharmacy and how we can change it – the funding landscape, campaigning and how you can lead NPA’s response 14:20 - 14:55 The shape of the market, and demand from consumers – what market data tells us about the present and the future, and what market research shows about what consumers want from pharmacy. |
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| 2:45 PM - 3:25 PM | 14:55 - 15:25 What does the NHS want from us and what does the future hold? |
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| 3:30 PM - 4:10 PM | 15:25 - 15:55 Growing business with the NHS and beyond – conversations with contractors across the UK 15:55 - 16:10 Imagining and creating a better future – guided by you |
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Key themes and features
These highly practical, case-based, solution-focused sessions will run across three conference rooms and are structured around the following five key programme themes:
Collaboration in Action
Collaboration in Action
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.
Business and Service Innovation
Business and Service Innovation
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.
Leadership and Workforce
Leadership and Workforce
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.
AI and Technology for Integration
AI and Technology for Integration
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
Clinical Skills Booster
Clinical Skills Booster
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.
NPA Members' Forum
NPA Members' Forum
We’re proud to present an NPA member conference - focussing ever more strongly on how we can help pharmacy businesses grow – as a key part of the Community Pharmacy and General Practice Conference agenda.
Join the conversation to shape a brighter future for community pharmacy – with the NPA backing you every day. The NPA member conference is an opportunity to explore the latest financial and market insights for community pharmacy – the latest market data and the latest market insight on what consumers want from pharmacies.
Hear the future for NHS provision and shape how the NPA’s unique resources can support your business to grow – creating better service for your community and a stronger business for you and your team.
GP Pharmacy in Focus
GP Pharmacy in Focus

A series of sessions focussed on providing practical updates in core clinical areas for clinical pharmacists working in general practice and Primary Care Networks.
Networking Zone: Hall of Heroes
Networking Zone: Hall of Heroes
The Hall of Heroes Networking Zone at the Community Pharmacy and General Practice Conference will spotlight real examples of collaboration between General Practice and Community Pharmacy from across the UK. From local initiatives and small pilots to system-wide programmes, we’ll be showcasing practical stories of teams working together to strengthen neighbourhood care.

More speakers will be announced soon. In the meantime, take a look at some of the esteemed leaders, clinical experts and grassroots innovators joining us at Community Pharmacy and General Practice 2026.

Dr Zalan Alam
GP Partner, Greater Manchester, GP Trainer & Director for Post Graduate Medical Education at Northern Care Alliance

Lucy Brotherton
Deputy Director of Nursing and Allied Health Professionals, Symphony Healthcare Services

Steve Gilbert OBE
Patient with Lived Experience of Serious Mental Illness & Racial Equalities Campaigner

Luvjit Kandula
Chair, Greater Manchester Primary Care Provider Board, Director of Strategy and Pharmacy Transformation, Community Pharmacy Greater Manchester

Helen Kilminster
PCPA National VP, Senior ACP Pharmacist and Deputy PCN Clinical Director Citrus Health

Sehar Shahid
Superintendent Pharmacist, Independent Prescriber, NPA Board Director (Scotland), Obesity Specialist Pharmacist

Building the agenda together – call for case studies

Are you working with a local GP practice or community pharmacy to improve patient care? We want to showcase your work.
The Hall of Heroes Networking Zone at the Community Pharmacy and General Practice Conference will spotlight real examples of collaboration between General Practice and Community Pharmacy from across the UK. From local initiatives and small pilots to system-wide programmes, we’re looking for practical stories of teams working together to strengthen neighbourhood care.
You don’t need a polished programme — we want real experiences, real learning, and real impact.
We will turn 20 of the best submissions into eye-catching posters to be displayed in the Hall of Heroes, with some teams invited to take part in lightning talks, networking sessions, and implementation discussions.
All accepted case studies will be published on the conference website and potentially featured in a post-event report.






























