Continuity of care and risk stratification in a PCN
Continuity of care moved up the agenda for 2026/27. The Network Contract DES specification now includes the use of risk-stratification
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Where the Capacity and Access money went
From 1 April 2026 the Capacity and Access Payment stopped arriving at network level. NHS England confirms that the payment,
What changed in the PCN DES for 2026/27
The 2026/27 contract year moved several things that shape how a Primary Care Network plans its medicines work. Some of
Useful websites for primary care clinical pharmacists
Moving into primary care as a pharmacist means learning a new set of reference points. The clinical knowledge transfers. What
ARRS Funding 2026/27: How It Works and What It Pays
How big is the ARRS pot, how is a PCN’s own allocation actually worked out, and what will NHS England reimburse? This guide sets out the sourced 2026/27 figures, and says plainly where a number has not been officially published rather than guess at one.
Medicines optimisation vs medicines management explained
The two terms get used interchangeably in job adverts, service specifications and ICB documents, and they describe different things. The
What is a primary care pharmacy technician?
A primary care pharmacy technician is a GPhC-registered healthcare professional who runs the operational layer of medicines management inside a
CQC clinical searches: what they look for and how to work the output
The CQC clinical searches are free and already sitting on your clinical system. The hard part is what comes next: every patient they surface triaged, actioned and documented.
The medicines breaches behind a Requires Improvement rating
Regulation 12 findings in general practice are mostly about medicines, and they recur in five places. Where they cluster, why well-run practices still get caught, and what a system that holds up under assessment looks like.
CQC ‘Requires Improvement’: how GP practices get back to Good
A Requires Improvement rating records what CQC could evidence on the day they looked. This is how to trace it back to the regulation that was breached, and how to sequence the work that closes it.
