One Pharmacy Workforce Transformation: Collective Leadership and Prescribing Integration In South East London

The South East London Integrated Care System (SELICS) One Pharmacy Workforce Model (OPWM) aims to unify and optimise the pharmacy workforce across health and care sectors. Initially supported by HEE workforce transformation funding, OPWM focuses on collective, evidence-based leadership and workforce governance to address challenges in attracting, developing, and retaining pharmacy professionals. In parallel, the Prescribing Integration Project (PIP) expands prescribing training and supervision within community pharmacies. Together, these projects align with the NHS Long Term Plan, enhancing multidisciplinary collaboration, expanding community-based care roles, and supporting sustainable pharmacy careers to address current and future workforce needs across the sector.

The project aims to implement and evaluate models for collective workforce leadership through a top down and bottom-up approach in alignment with the SEL OPWM. It aims to establish a workforce leadership group that is guided by a pharmacy network using a ‘shadow board’ approach comprised of pharmacist and pharmacy technician staff from all sectors and levels. Additionally, the project aims to implement recommendations from the 2023/2024 Prescribing Integration Project (PIP) pilot evaluation, refining training and supervision models across the system. It will co-create and test innovative models for developing transferable prescribing skills tailored to community pharmacy services.