In Britain’s crowded primary care landscape, pharmacists occupy a quiet corner. Pressure across healthcare systems in the United Kingdom (UK) has increased in recent years, while community pharmacy has remained limited in authority. Today, this silent resilience is on the verge of a discreet yet significant transformation: from clinical urgency to strategic transitions. By embedding Independent Prescribing (IP) as a lever for the future of primary care, we aim to translate pa

It's time to stop viewing pharmacy as a simple transaction and start recognising it as afoundational pillar of modern healthcare. This was one of the central messages of the first roundtable of the UK Medicine Policy series hosted by the Global Policy Network (GPN) on June 25, 2025. The roundtable brought together colleagues from the NHS, industry, the Commonwealth, and international health systems, fostering the cross-sector dialogue essential for transformative change. It w