Dr Wasim Baqir is Head of Pharmacy Integration in the Primary Care team at NHS England, working on primary care pharmacy transformation. Prior to this he led the national medicines optimisation in care homes scheme for NHS England. He currently leads the Community Pharmacy Independant Pathfinder Programme as well as working across a number of areas (primary care networks, health inequalities, pharmacy workforce), supporting pharmacy integration across Integrated Care Systems. He has a clinical role as lead pharmacist at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust where he previously led on care homes (www.health.org.uk/shine). He has a passion for quality improvement science and is a member the Health Foundation’s Generation Q Network. Nationally, he co-chairs the multidisciplinary medicines research group, PRIMM (Prescribing Research in Medicines Management).