The Pharmacy Show has been the national gathering for pharmacy professionals for over a decade.
As the UK’s largest dedicated trade show and education conference for community and primary care pharmacy, The Pharmacy Show isn’t just an event – it’s the essential destination for pharmacy professionals who want to move forward, together.
Nowhere else can so many pharmacy professionals come together for two days of education, networking opportunities and of course, fun!
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Registration for The Pharmacy Show 2025 is now LIVE!
We’re excited to announce that registration is officially open for The Pharmacy Show 2025 – the UK’s largest gathering of pharmacy professionals – returning to the NEC Birmingham on 12–13 October. Whether you’re a returning visitor or attending for the first time, this year’s event promises more value, more networking, and more opportunities to shape the future of pharmacy.
What can you expect?
- Attend over 150 educational sessions presented by more than 200 expert speakers across 9 theatres.
- Meet with over 300 suppliers and test new products and solutions live in the flesh.
- Network with thousands of like-minded pharmacy peers and unite as a profession.
- Upskill and learn in dedicated hands-on workshops live on the show floor.
- Help change the future of our profession by having your voice heard.
- Gain key insight and knowledge that you can implement immediately.
What’s new for 2025?
The Pharmacy Owners’ Forum – A brand-new theatre designed specifically for pharmacy owners and directors. Share insights, tackle challenges, and explore business growth strategies with your peers.
The Networking Zone – A relaxed, dedicated space for meaningful conversations and building valuable connections. Whether you’re exploring partnerships or exchanging ideas, this is where real collaboration happens.
Reimagined Partners Wanted Programme – Now fully integrated with The Pharmacy Show App, this updated programme helps match buyers with exhibitors actively looking to grow their distribution network. Opt in, get seen, and start networking before the show even begins.
What’s next?
If you're serious about the growth, sustainability, and future of your pharmacy career or business, this is the place to be. Register now to secure your free* two-day pass and be part of the profession’s most important event of the year.
REGISTER FOR YOUR FREE TICKET*
*The Pharmacy Show is free to attend for UK-registered healthcare professionals. Click here for more details
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About The Pharmacy Show:
The Pharmacy Show is the UK’s leading trade event and education conference dedicated to the community and primary care pharmacy sector. Free to attend for UK-registered healthcare professionals, the show attracts thousands of pharmacy professionals for two days of dynamic learning, networking, and discovery.
With more than 300 exhibitors and hundreds of hours of high-quality educational content delivered by renowned sector experts, the event equips attendees with the latest insights, innovations, and technologies shaping the future of pharmacy practice.
For more information, please contact:
Exhibitor and speaker enquiries: thepharmacyshow@closerstillmedia.com
Marketing enquiries: a.chung@closerstillmedia.com
About CloserStill Media:
We run more than 200 market-leading, B2B events, publications and brands focused on the Business Technologies, Healthcare and Future Transport and Infrastructure sectors.
We are committed to excellence and innovation in our business operations and in our brands. Resulting in widespread recognition including numerous accolades and prestigious awards for our events like the London Vet Show and Learning Technologies to Tech Show and DevLearn, we were honoured to have been named in The Sunday Times Top 100 Best Companies to work for three consecutive years, from 2018 to 2020.
But we are nothing without our "CloserStillians". We are committed to building an environment for our workforce to excel.
Find out more information about CloserStill Media: https://www.closerstillmedia.com/
The 10-Year Plan update: community pharmacy recognised, but capacity and funding concerns persist
With the NHS 10-Year Plan due for publication imminently, senior government officials and NHS figures have reiterated the importance of shifting care closer to home. Community pharmacy has been highlighted as a “key clinical service provider” within this transition, but sector leaders warn that current capacity and funding limitations may obstruct delivery without meaningful action.
Hospital to Community: A Central Shift
Health Secretary, Wes Streeting told the NHS Confed Expo in Manchester that the reforms outlined in the upcoming plan aim to drive significant change.
“As we deliver the transformational shifts in our 10-year plan—from hospital to community, analogue to digital, sickness to prevention—it will have radical implications for services.”
He added that “much of what’s done in a hospital today will be done on the high street, over the phone or through the app in a decade’s time,” suggesting community pharmacy is a key player in his vision for the future. Streeting also confirmed that the government is “open to” acute trusts delivering primary and community services where appropriate to improve efficiency and integration.
However, community pharmacy was not directly mentioned in his speech, despite its increasing relevance in the delivery of neighbourhood health services.
These comments echoed those previously made by Chief Pharmaceutical Officer David Webb and Pharmacy Minister Stephen Kinnock, who have stated that pharmacy will be “critical” to the success of the 10-year plan.
Meanwhile, Sally Warren, Director General for the 10-Year Health Plan, said that the radical aspect of the plan lies not in the ideas themselves, but in their implementation.
“The flagship three shifts – hospital to community, analogue to digital and sickness to prevention – are not radical,” she said. “It is delivering the shifts that will be radical.”
Warren also emphasised the plan’s focus on giving patients more control over their care.
“That sense of patient power – patients being in the driving seat – is a really, really important North Star for our work in the 10-year plan,” she said.
Community Pharmacy Must ‘Grow’
Meanwhile, NHS England’s National Director for Primary Care and Community Services, Dr Amanda Doyle, stated that while the 10-Year Plan will be “very, very GP-centric,” it is “not all about general practice.” Speaking at the same conference, she emphasised that “community pharmacy is increasingly emerging as a key clinical service provider in primary care and we need that to grow.”
She acknowledged the sector is “underwater currently,” citing challenges around sustainability and workforce pressures. However, she urged that these difficulties “must drive reform,” highlighting the need to “take advantage of the opportunities around automation of dispensing and around skill mix use” to enable pharmacists to focus on clinical care.
Dr Doyle also noted that legislative changes – such as the introduction of hub-and-spoke dispensing and the expanded role of pharmacy technicians under patient group directions – should support service transformation.
How is the sector feeling while awaiting the plan’s publication?
In a joint statement released on 16 June, Community Pharmacy England (CPE) and other primary care negotiators warned there is “little capacity to deliver” the proposed reforms without “further details and meaningful actions” from government. The statement welcomed the recent pledge of a £29 billion annual NHS funding uplift until 2028/29 but called this “the single opportunity in this parliamentary cycle” to enable the shift to community care.
The letter, signed by CPE Chief Executive Janet Morrison, said that “pressures all parts of primary care are facing” stem from “a historic focus on specialist settings, bureaucracy and poor workforce planning by NHS England.”
“Years of underfunding and real-terms cuts have left community pharmacies struggling to survive – and it will take more than automation to fix the issue,” she said.
She added that the government must “deliver on its commitment to build the sustainable funding and operational model that community pharmacy so desperately needs.”
Likewise, Gareth Jones of the National Pharmacy Association said Dr Doyle’s public endorsement of pharmacy’s clinical role was welcome, but warned that a lack of funding would impede any future plans:
“Without sufficient funding, the current dire situation cannot be transformed into a position where pharmacies are playing a full clinical role within the NHS.”
Malcolm Harrison, Chief Executive of the Company Chemists’ Association, echoed this view:
“Reform and new opportunities, like automation, require investment which has been lacking. If we get the necessary investment, and ambitious commissioning of new clinical care services, community pharmacy will continue to grow as a clinical service provider in primary care.”
Sir Jim Mackey, Chief Executive of NHS England, acknowledged that “everyone’s worried” about the feasibility of the shift to community-based care, noting that “we’ve talked about neighbourhood care and the shift for years and years… [but] we’ve never managed to do it on any scale or for any period.”
A Wait for Detail
The final version of the 10-Year Plan has not yet been published.
As pharmacists and other healthcare professionals await further details, sector leaders are united in the message that ambition must now be matched with action – and funding – if community pharmacy is to fulfil the role many in government are increasingly asking it to play.
Titan confirmed as Main Café Sponsor for The Pharmacy Show two years in a row
The Pharmacy Show is delighted to announce that Titan, the UK’s leading PMR system provider, will return as the Main Café Sponsor for The Pharmacy Show 2025, marking their second consecutive year in this key role.
The Perfect Spot for Networking and Innovation
Located at the heart of the show floor, the Titan Café provides the ideal space for attendees to recharge, connect, and engage in meaningful conversations about the latest innovations shaping the future of pharmacy.
Reflecting on last year’s event, Sajid Ramzan, National Sales Manager at Titan, shared:
"The Pharmacy Show is a fantastic event — it brings the entire industry under one roof. It’s not just about meeting new customers but reconnecting with our ‘Titan family’ — the people who have supported us and made Titan what it is today. We love showcasing our latest innovations, catching up with familiar faces, and welcoming new ones to the community."
Meet Titan at The Pharmacy Show 2025
Titan has transformed pharmacy operations across the UK with its NHS-integrated, cloud-based platform that streamlines processes, boosts efficiency, and creates exciting new opportunities for pharmacies and healthcare businesses.
Visit the Titan team at Stand D55 to discover their innovative solutions and learn how they are shaping the future of the pharmacy sector.
Don’t Miss Out – Register Today!
Click the button below to register for your free two-day pass* and join Titan in the UK largest trade show and education conference for community pharmacy.
*The Pharmacy Show is free to attend for UK-registered healthcare professionals. Click here for more details.
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About Titan PMR:
Titan is the UK's leading PMR system that has transformed the way pharmacies and businesses work, creating new efficiencies and delivering a platform that opens up new opportunities for the future of the industry.
Find out more information about Titan PMR at: https://www.titanpmr.com/
About The Pharmacy Show:
The Pharmacy Show is the UK’s leading trade event and education conference dedicated to the community and primary care pharmacy sector. Free to attend for UK-registered healthcare professionals, the show attracts thousands of pharmacy professionals for two days of dynamic learning, networking, and discovery.
With more than 300 exhibitors and hundreds of hours of high-quality educational content delivered by renowned sector experts, the event equips attendees with the latest insights, innovations, and technologies shaping the future of pharmacy practice.
For more information, please contact:
Exhibitor and speaker enquiries: thepharmacyshow@closerstillmedia.com
Marketing enquiries: a.chung@closerstillmedia.com
About CloserStill Media:
We run more than 200 market-leading, B2B events, publications and brands focused on the Business Technologies, Healthcare and Future Transport and Infrastructure sectors.
We are committed to excellence and innovation in our business operations and in our brands. Resulting in widespread recognition including numerous accolades and prestigious awards for our events like the London Vet Show and Learning Technologies to Tech Show and DevLearn, we were honoured to have been named in The Sunday Times Top 100 Best Companies to work for three consecutive years, from 2018 to 2020.
But we are nothing without our "CloserStillians". We are committed to building an environment for our workforce to excel.
Find our more information about CloserStill Media: https://www.closerstillmedia.com/
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You've got everything in one place - pharma companies, products, suppliers, legal experts, solicitors and accountants.
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"Love coming here because we got a lot of challenges in the sector, but we've got a lot of opportunities. It's a good way to find out what's going on across the country. It's a key must-do in the pharmacy calendar. A problem in my part of the world could be a solution somewhere else and vice versa. That's how I get refreshed and I keep motivated.
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The main benefit of attending The Pharmacy Show for me is broadening my knowledge. It ticks all the boxes for me: the session topics, distributors and quality of people.There is a huge variety and lots of learning, there are so many products available.
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I come every year. The Pharmacy Show is a great place to get up-to-speed with what’s new, what’s already happening and what’s about to happen. There’s a good mix of people, a nice mix and match of distributors with different types of products and services. You really get a feel for the entire pharmacy sector and its diversity.
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I really enjoyed the face to face interaction with potential customers and the high exposure of my product.
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I've enjoyed it. I think the show will give me some advantage going forward – I come here to speak to pharmacy suppliers. I really enjoy being able to speak to the exhibitors.
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The Pharmacy Show provides a fantastic opportunity to see how the boundaries of innovation are being pushed in community pharmacy.
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