Keeping Pharmacy’s Voice Strong: Support Your Community Pharmacy PCN Engagement Lead
In Hertfordshire, every Primary Care Network (PCN) area is supported by a Community Pharmacy PCN Engagement Lead, funded until 31 March 2026. These leads work hard to represent pharmacy at PCN meetings, strengthen relationships with GP practices, and promote pharmacy services across the system.
But their continued presence beyond the funding period hinges on the value they deliver—and on how effectively contractors engage with them. Your involvement now helps demonstrate pharmacy’s essential contribution and supports the case for continued investment.
Stay Connected
Your PCN Engagement Lead may contact you for quick input — whether confirming a service, sharing feedback, or giving examples of good practice.
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Reply promptly, even a quick response helps ensure pharmacy stays included in important conversations.
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Non-responses weaken pharmacy’s voice and reduce opportunities for involvement.
Share Your Local Knowledge
You know your community best. Your day-to-day experience adds valuable context to discussions around service development, integration, and commissioning. Real-world examples help make the case for pharmacy’s role in the system. Your insights help your lead speak with authority and advocate for pharmacy effectively.
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Highlight challenges you face and successes you’ve achieved.
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Real examples influence local priorities and can lead to new or expanded services.
Support Their Work
PCN Leads are doing a difficult job — often with limited time, competing priorities, and the task of representing many pharmacies at once. Your engagement shows that pharmacy is willing, ready, and able to work collaboratively within primary care.
The Bigger Picture
The future of the PCN Engagement Lead role depends not just on what they do, but on how we, as a sector, work with them. By supporting this role now, we help ensure that community pharmacy has a strong, consistent voice across Hertfordshire.
Hertfordshire Community Pharmacy PCN Engagement Leads
| Area | PCN Name | Lead | Email address |
| South West Hertfordshire | Harpenden Health
Abbey Health |
Payal Radia | payal.radia1@nhs.net |
| Central Watford
North Watford Manor View Pathfinder Bridgewater |
Purvi Barchha | purvi.barchha@nhs.net | |
| Attenborough
Rickmansworth and Chorleywood The Grand Union |
Krishma Patel | krishma@enimed.co.uk | |
| Alban Healthcare
Halo |
Rachel Solanki | rachel.solanki@nhs.net | |
| Alliance
Alpha Decorum Beta Delta |
Ushma Rao | ushma.rao1@nhs.net | |
| Potters Bar
Herts Five |
Lisa Olins | lisa.olins@nhs.net | |
| East and North Hertfordshire | Broxbourne Alliance
Lea Valley Health |
Marc Nathan | marc.nathan@nhs.net |
| Icknield
Hitchin and Whitwell |
Linda Fourie | linda.fourie@nhs.net | |
| Stevenage North
Stevenage South |
Bhavin Patel | bhavin.patel4@nhs.net | |
| Stort Valley and Villiages | Bozlul Qureshi | bozlul.alomqureshi@nhs.net | |
| Hertford and Rurals
Hoddesdon and Broxbourne Ware and Rurals |
Alpesh Patel | alpesh.patel1@nhs.net | |
| Hatfield
Welwyn Garden City |
Roshan Patel | roshan.patel1@nhs.net |
Additional background and resources for Hertfordshire contractors on PCNs are available here:
Primary Care Networks (PCNs)
