We are delighted to invite you to join the first 2026 seminar of the SafetyNet NIHR Patient Safety Health Economics Working Group (HEWG): Adoption of clinical pharmacist roles in primary care: longitudinal evidence from English general practice

Date: 4 March 2026
Time: 12:00 – 1:30pm
Where: Online (Microsoft Teams)

This seminar will explore how the rapid expansion of clinical pharmacists in English general practice has influenced prescribing quality and medicines use. It will set out the policy context for pharmacist integration, summarise the existing international and UK evidence base, and then present longitudinal, practice-level evidence from England (2015–2019) using national workforce and prescribing datasets. The talk will explain the outcomes assessed (e.g., prescribing volume and costs, antibiotics, opioids, anxiolytics), outline the analytical approach, and discuss key findings on where improvements appear strongest (including differences by the intensity of pharmacist staffing), alongside limitations and implications for policy and future research.

Speaker

Dr Michael Anderson
University of Manchester and London School of Economics and Political Science

Dr Michael Anderson is an NIHR-funded clinical lecturer at the University of Manchester and a visiting/senior visiting fellow at London School of Economics and Political Science. His work sits at the intersection of primary care, health economics, and health policy, with a focus on healthcare quality and system performance (alongside clinical practice as a GP).

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