UKPPLAB meet the board webinars

Pharmacy professions and wider team members invited to contribute to professional leadership co-creation conversation

The UK Pharmacy Professional Leadership Advisory Board is inviting pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and wider pharmacy team members from across the UK to contribute to the next steps in the discussions about the future of pharmacy professional leadership (PPL).

The Board is actively discussing how to build a sustainable and effective future model of PPL in the light of the vote in favour of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s (RPS) proposals to establish a Royal College of Pharmacy in 2026.

To ensure everyone has the opportunity to contribute to this conversation, keep up the momentum towards greater collaboration, and feed into the co-creation process that has been established between the Board and RPS, the Board is hosting a series of ‘Meet the Board Members’ webinars in July and September.

Register now for your chance to join the webinars. All webinars are open to pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, wider pharmacy team members and interested stakeholders from across the UK.

• Monday 14 July 2025, 6pm-7.15pm

• Tuesday 15 July 2025, 6pm-7.15pm

• Wednesday 3 September 2025, 6pm-7.15pm

• Monday 8 September 2025, 6pm-7.15pm

At the Board’s most recent meeting on 10 June 2025, pharmacy professional leadership bodies (PLBs) and specialist professional groups (SPGs) also united around a new, collaborative Vision and Common Purpose – one that re-energises professional leadership and supports pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and the wider pharmacy workforce.

Co-created by Board members, and hundreds of pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and people working in pharmacy across the UK, the Vision and Common Purpose sets out five shared commitments to building a more collaborative, inclusive and effective model of PPL. This commitment to future collaboration will be used to guide the next steps on co-creation.

Following its June meeting, the Board has published:

• A Vision and Common Purpose

• A video clip by Professor Mahendra Patel

• A meeting statement

• A blog from Sir Hugh Taylor, Independent Chair.

You will find these, and more about the Board’s work, at: Independent UK Pharmacy Professional Leadership Advisory Board to strengthen collaboration | Join the Conversation (scwcsu.nhs.uk).