For the third series in ‘Soundbites from the NHS’, 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.
Last year, in 2023 the workforce plan came out, setting out the landscape of how the workforce will be shaped going forward and what we are trying to achieve. We will be discussing workforce in terms of pharmacists.
In 2026, we will have a number of pharmacists that are prescribers. How are we training up this workforce to take on all these new roles being required of them?
Watch each episode in the series below:
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