The 2026/27 GP contract: what it means for your medicines workload
A medicines and pharmacy view of the 2026/27 GP contract year, the themes shaping workload, and how managed clinical pharmacy support helps practices respond.
Resources
Clinical Pharmacist Support for Practices Using EMIS Web
Clinical pharmacist support in EMIS Web starts where a practice’s medicines work already lives. EMIS Web is long-established in English
ARRS funding calculator for PCNs
Every PCN’s ARRS allocation comes from the same formula: a weighted population multiplied by a national rate per point. The
Case studies: what managed clinical pharmacy has delivered for GP practices and PCNs
Inspections passed, registers worked and schemes claimed at real UK GP practices and PCNs, with the figures unrounded and the client names withheld.
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
Remote clinical pharmacist services: how they work in primary care
How remote clinical pharmacist services work in GP practices and PCNs: whether they are safe, who holds the governance, the benefits, and what a good model looks like.
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
Clinical pharmacist support for practices using Medicus
A new name is starting to appear on GP clinical system shortlists. Medicus is a cloud-based clinical system for NHS
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.
