Get involved with IT

Events with a digital or technology focus are listed below. The Community Pharmacy IT Group (CP ITG) meets each quarter, and its papers and updates are available on the CP ITG webpage.

Upcoming and recent events

• September 23rd, 2026: Community Pharmacy IT Group: Main meeting (virtual)
• October 11th-12th, 2026: Pharmacy Show including the technology hub (face-to-face)
• October 14th, 2026: Primary Care Conference, (face-to-face)
• October 29th-30th, 2026: Healthcare Efficiency Through Technology (HETT) / UK Health Show (face-to-face)
• November12th, 2026: Ambient Voice Technology (virtual)
• November 23rd-24th, 2026: Digital Health World Congress (face-to-face)
• March 16th-17th, 2027: Rewired, Birmingham (face-to-face)
• May 7th-8th, 2027: Clinical Pharmacy Congress, London

(One-off and annual events appear in gold. You can also see Digitalhealth.net webinars/events, FutureNHS events, Kings Fund events, and NHS events.)

Previous events

(List retained but simplified for clarity while keeping dates unchanged)

• May 12th-13th, 2021: Clinical Pharmacy Congress, London
• September 21st, 2022 10am-12.50: Community Pharmacy IT Group, (virtual quarterly meeting)
• September 29th, 2022 12.00pm-1.00pm: Digital technologies and interoperability: enabling the future of integrated care (virtual)
• October 11th, 2022 9.30am-5.00pm: Digital health and care congress 2022 (face-to-face)
• October 11th, 2022 9.30am-10.15am: Community Pharmacy IT Group: Drug Tariff IT event (special meeting)
• October 12th, 2022 9.30am-10.15am: Community Pharmacy IT Group: dm+d medicine code changes event (special meeting)
• October 12th, 2022 10.30am-11.15am: Community Pharmacy IT Group: Vaccines, National Booking Service and appointments (special meeting)
• October 16th-17th, 2022 9.30am-5.00pm: Pharmacy Show, including the technology hub (face-to-face)
• October 27th, 2022 11am-11.45am: Community Pharmacy IT Group: Booking and Referral Standards (BaRS) (special meeting)
• November 7th, 2022 noon-12.55pm: Community Pharmacy IT Group: Introduction to the Pharmacy Contraception Service (special meeting)
• December 8th, 2022 9.30am-11am: Connecting with & benefitting from patient records webinar (for IT group and LPCs), hosted by CP ITG/NHSTD
• February 1st, 2023, Digital Primary Care Conference
• February 2nd,2023: Pharmacy introduction to the National Care Records Service
• February 7th, 2023: Introduction to the National Care Records Service 
• March 13th, 2023 10am-12.45: Community Pharmacy IT Group, (virtual quarterly meeting)
• March 14th-15th, 2023: Rewired, (face-to-face)
• June 7th, 2023 10am-12.40: Community Pharmacy IT Group, (virtual quarterly meeting)
• June 12th-16th, 2023, London Tech Week
• July 17th, 2023: Community Pharmacy IT Group: NHS Profile Manager updates including flu vaccine booking link field
• July 24th, 2023: Community Pharmacy IT Group: EPS trackability and NHS App workshop
• August 30th, 2023 12.20-13.30: ICB Digital Design Principles and Interoperability (webinar)
• September 20th, 2023 10am-12.45: Community Pharmacy IT Group: IT for the Primary Care Recovery Plan (virtual)
• October 11th-12th, 2023: Digital health and care congress 2023 (face-to-face)
• November 8th, 2023: Community Pharmacy IT Group: Main meeting (virtual)
• November 15th, 2023: Community Pharmacy IT Group: Sub-group meeting (virtual)
• December 12th, 2023: NHS Genomics Healthcare Summit, London (face-to-face)
• April 24th-25th, 2024: Digital Healthcare Show, (face-to-face)
• March 18th-19th, 2025: Digital Health AI+Data  (face-to-face)
• May 9th-10th, 2025: Clinical Pharmacy Congress, London
• June 4th, 2025: Community Pharmacy IT Group: Main meeting (virtual)
• September 17th, 2025: Community Pharmacy IT Group: Main meeting (virtual)
• October 1st, 2025: Primary Care Conference, (face-to-face)
• October 7th-8th, 2025: Healthcare Efficiency Through Technology (HETT) / UK Health Show (face-to-face)
• October 12th-13th, 2025: Pharmacy Show including the technology hub (face-to-face)
• March 24th-25th, 2026: Rewired, Birmingham (face-to-face)
• April 1st, 2026 AI in Healthcare Conference (face-to-face)
• May 8th-9th, 2026: Clinical Pharmacy Congress, London
• June 3rd, 2026: Community Pharmacy IT Group: Main meeting (virtual)
• June 30th, 2026: Digital health and AI conference (face-to-face)

To request an event be added or to obtain a full list of past events, please contact da@cpe.org.uk.

Feedback and pilot participation

• If you are a pharmacy owner interested in testing new digital tools, please enter your details using our IT feedback form.
• Join the Community Pharmacy Digital email Group (CPDG). This email forum helps pharmacy teams and Local Pharmaceutical Committee members share ideas on digital topics and also informs CP ITG’s work.
• Use the IT feedback form to volunteer for future pilot opportunities.

Surveys

Keep an eye out for digital surveys shared with CPDG members and through the Community Pharmacy England newsletter.

Consultations

• NHS consultations (various deadlines)

You may find social media helpful for discussing community pharmacy IT topics. Community Pharmacy England has a guide to pharmacy social media use that can help you boost your use of it.

You and your team can learn more about digital topics by reading our information on Digital training and capabilities, exploring digital training options, and visiting our IT hub page.

Connected care through the Single Patient Record (SPR)

The SPR is intended to combine important health information – such as test results, hospital letters, and summaries from GP and hospital care – into a single, easy-to-access place. Patients will be able to view this information themselves through the NHS App, while the NHS 10-Year Health Plan sets out that pharmacies along with other healthcare providers will be connected into it. The SPR project team continue to seek inputs from the community pharmacy sector and its IT suppliers. To register your interest in reviewing and providing feedback on an SPR prototype, please complete the SPR expression of interest form. Research calls are expected to begin during the week commencing 21st September 2026. The researchers are seeking input from pharmacy team members with a range of digital skills and experiences, including those with diverse needs, to help ensure the SPR is accessible and works well for everyone.

Emerging AI technologies and pharmacy research

Community Pharmacy England has updated its artificial intelligence (AI) guidance. Pharmacy team members are invited to take part in AI community pharmacy research. To take part in the research, register your interest using the IT feedback form (input ‘AI research’ into question 6). Pharmacy team members taking part will be able to hear more about the research as well as share their views via a short five to ten minute survey. This enables research participants to share their views on the opportunities, challenges, safety and governance considerations, and areas where AI-enabled tools could support work and patient care.

Data security, DPIAs and assurance case studies

NHS England and DHSC are seeking examples of good practice to support development of an Innovator Passport which is intended to reduce duplication in technology and information governance (IG) assurance. The findings will inform delivery of a minimum viable Innovator Passport product for digital technologies by the end of 2026. Pharmacy teams and LPCs can email relevant feedback or case study examples (e.g. local IG template documents, Data Protection Impact Assessments and other process examples) to our IT Policy Manager.

Shaping the future of the NHS medicines database (dm+d)

NHS England has launched its first annual NHS dictionary of medicines and devices (dm+d) user survey. The survey seeks feedback on how dm+d is used, challenges experienced by users, and priorities for future development. Pharmacy team members and pharmacy IT stakeholders, access dm+d information within their EPS systems and dm+d browsers, and may contribute. Responses are requested by 2nd October 2026.

Take part in the NHS England dm+d survey

Get involved with IT group work

To request that Community Pharmacy England and the Community Pharmacy IT Group consider specific IT matters or to request to join future meetings (from October 2026 onwards), please fill out the One-minute IT feedback/comment form.

The groups’ working Pharmacy IT roadmaps have been updated since the publication of the previous bulletin. If you would like to comment on the latest versions, please email da@cpe.org.uk.

The Autumn round-up also outlines other opportunities for pharmacy teams to contribute to improving pharmacy IT.

To learn more, please refer to:

• IT update one-page
• Quarterly IT update bulletin (pdf).

NHS England and Community Pharmacy England are inviting pharmacy owners to take part in research testing the new NHS.net Connect Virtual Visits platform, which supports appointment booking and remote or face‑to‑face consultations.

The platform works with Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Bookings.

To take part, team members will need:

• an active personal NHS.net Connect account
• access to the pharmacy’s shared NHS.net Connect inbox
• Microsoft Teams installed on a computer or tablet
• a device with a webcam

This research will help improve the platform and make it as easy to use as possible for busy pharmacy teams.

To register interest, complete the short web form. Your information will be shared with the project team for selection purposes.

If you would like more information first, email da@cpe.org.uk with ‘Virtual Visits pilot’ in the subject line.

Read more: NHS.net Connect and pharmacy remote consultations.