In this Soundbites from the NHS series, Jyoti Singh speaks to Danny Bartlett, a Board Member for the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, Senior Lecturer at the University of Brighton, and Lead Pharmacist at Horsham Central PCN.

2023 saw the release of the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan, setting out the landscape of how the workforce will be shaped going forward and the objectives it will be trying to achieve..

In 2026, we will have a number of pharmacists that are prescribers. How are we training up this workforce to take on all the new roles being required of them?

Watch each episode in the series chronologically below:

This series of Soundbites from the NHS was created when HSJ Advisory was under our previous Wilmington Healthcare brand.

Episode 1: Training up the new pharmacist workforce

Episode 2: Pharmacists prescribing competencies, roles and responsibilities

Episode 3: PCN prescribing roll out examples

Episode 4: Prescribing workforce and challenges

Episode 5: Prescribing workforce and challenges

Episode 6: Role of external agencies such as industry and charities