The London Leadership Symposium on the Future Pharmacy Workforce from 2026 by

Theme 1

Aysu_Selcuk — 2025-06-12 06:35:04 UTC

The new GPhC Standards expect up to 16 weeks of experiential learning in the MPharm curriculum.

How do we achieve better and relevant workplace learning practices across our provider sectors?

Theme 2

Aysu_Selcuk — 2025-06-12 06:35:19 UTC

As an employer or pharmacy supervisor and manager, what support would you like to see to enable better workplace learning in your organisation?

Theme 3

Aysu_Selcuk — 2025-06-12 06:35:35 UTC

What ideas or infrastructures would enable greater capacity building for workplace education and learning?

Theme 4

Aysu_Selcuk — 2025-06-12 06:35:51 UTC

How can we compile more comprehensive workforce intelligence across London to enable better and effective workforce planning?

All participants - Q1

jennifercockerell — 2025-06-30 12:57:42 UTC

How can we better embed students into the London workforce?

(For a London cohort of up to 2000 UG students)

All participants - Q2

jennifercockerell — 2025-06-30 12:58:02 UTC

How can we achieve operational sustainability with our large London cohorts?

jennifercockerell — 2025-07-03 11:55:11 UTC

Please use the above to access our Pledge to actively contribute to the initial education and training of our profession’s student pharmacists across London

Please share any additional questions here. Please include the name of the speaker you'd like to ask, followed by your name and email address

jennifercockerell — 2025-07-03 11:59:48 UTC

If we receive a high volume of questions, we will answer all outstanding questions via email after the session

Agenda for the session

jennifercockerell — 2025-07-03 14:46:14 UTC

jennifercockerell — 2025-07-10 08:10:03 UTC

Mr David Webb, Chief Pharmaceutical Officer for England, NHS England.

Ms Katie Reygate, Associate Head of Pharmacy, NHS England, London.

Professor Cate Whittlesea, Director of the UCL School of Pharmacy, London.

Professor Sukhi Bansal, Head of Department of Pharmacy, King’s College London.

Professor Reem Kayyali, Head of Department of Pharmacy, Kingston University, London.

Atif Shamin, Pharmacy Dean for London, NHSE

Devinder Kalsi, Lead Medicines Optimisation Pharmacist at CLCH

Poureya Agakhani, Responsible for medicines optimisation and transformation at London Northwest University Healthcare NHS Trust.

Ketan Agravat, Director of Operations at the Pearl Chemist Group spanning the London geography.

Jatinder Harchowal, Chief Pharmacist and Divisional Clinical Director for Clinical Support Service in University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH)

Full bios here - Biogs.docx

Ideas

2025-07-10 14:29:28 UTC

Open up research and teaching opportunities for placement providers as an extra initiative for supervisors

Set up standardised pre placement simulations or training for students prior to them attending placements

Supervisor training

2025-07-10 14:32:27 UTC

Supervisor training- standardisation is good but supervisors also do training for trainee roles- be mindful of time and resources on the ground to release staff for training.