Strategy at Every Level: Place & Neighbourhood

The new structure operates through four defined “places”: Berkshire West, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Berkshire East. To ensure clinical strategy meets local needs, we are focusing on two critical tiers:

• Primary Care Provider Collaboratives (PCPCs): We have secured a seat for the LPC on every PCPC board. This ensures that when GPs, dentists, and optometrists sit down to plan services, the community pharmacy voice is heard loud and clear.
• Neighbourhood Working: Beyond the high-level boards, we are championing "neighbourhood-level" integration. This means fostering direct, local relationships between pharmacies and nearby primary care networks. By working at the neighbourhood level, we can better identify specific health inequalities and ensure pharmacy services are integrated into the daily flow of local patient care.

SECPA Ltd: Keeping Funding Local

In a bold move to protect provider interests, we have partnered with LPCs across Surrey, Sussex, Hampshire, and the Isle of Wight to establish SECPA Ltd. As a wholly non-profit provider company, SECPA allows us to bid for large-scale primary care services. When SECPA wins a contract, it subcontracts the work back to you—our local pharmacies—ensuring that funding flows directly to frontline providers rather than being lost to outside corporations.

Navigating the Contractual Gap

We are currently in a period of "watchful waiting." The Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework expires on 31 March 2026, and we are awaiting the results of negotiations between Community Pharmacy England and the Government. We recognize the immense pressure you are under—from rising business rates and staffing costs to the ongoing headaches of medicine supply—and we are advocating for a settlement that reflects these realities.

Join the Conversation

Throughout this period of immense change, our commitment to you remains absolute. We’d love to see you at our FREE Summer Event on 10 May in High Wycombe. It’s the perfect chance to reconnect, discuss the new "neighbourhood" opportunities, and navigate this new chapter for the Thames Valley together.

David Dean, Chief Officer

She will offer practical suport, share updates and training and gather insight  from pharmacy teams to help shape future priorities, by strenthening community and removing barriers.   Naomi's role will help ensure esrvices such as superviserd consumption, needly exchange and take home nalozone reamin accessble, safe and delivered with confidence.  Naomi, has worked within Private health sector of Occupational Health for nine years, with experience dealing with individuals from all walks of life. She has a real passion for people and socialising.