Integration of a clinical pharmacist workforce into newly forming primary care networks: a qualitatively driven, complex systems analysis.
Thomas MillsMary MaddenDuncan StewartBrendan GoughJim McCambridgePublished in: BMJ open (2022)
National policy decisions that required General Practitioners to form PCNs at the same time as they integrated a new workforce risked undermining the potential of both PCNs and the new workforce. PCNs require time and support to fully form and integrate clinical pharmacists if successful role development is to occur. Efforts to incentivise delivery of PCN pharmacy services in future must be responsive to local capacity.