The National medicines optimisation opportunities guidance will not be updated for 2026/2027, but this is available on the National Archives.

However, the 2024/2025 opportunities remain a set of important medicines optimisation topic areas that integrated care boards and partner organisations may pursue as improvement initiatives for their population.

The latest information on each of the 16 opportunity areas is available below.

The National Medicines Optimisation ePACT2 dashboard and other data sources in the NHS BSA national medicines optimisation opportunities can continue to be utilised to review progress and track changes on the opportunity areas. The metrics in the dashboard are currently under review – further information will be added to the Futures collaboration platform medicines efficiencies workspace. Some dashboards are also available in the prescribing measures section of the OpenPrescribing website.