The results of the 2024 Community Pharmacy Workforce Survey have been published by NHS England. The survey, which will be repeated later in the autumn, is intended to build a picture of the community pharmacy workforce, developing and strengthening the information available to support workforce planning. The data will also help NHS England and stakeholders [...]
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In the autumn of last year, NHS England started a clinical review of the Pharmacy First clinical pathways and patient group directions (PGD), informed by feedback received from pharmacy teams and other stakeholders, including Community Pharmacy England. Three community pharmacists nominated by Community Pharmacy England participated in the working group which advised NHS England on [...]
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In the recent CPCF funding settlement, it was agreed that changes would be made to the Pharmacy Contraception Service (PCS) to include drospirenone within the list of contraceptives which can be supplied and to add oral emergency contraception (EC) to the service. These changes to the service necessitate updates to the service specification, the existing [...]
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For some time at Community Pharmacy England, we have been pressing DHSC to agree to include the payments for clinical services in the advance payments pharmacy owners receive from the NHSBSA. DHSC have now agreed to this and the NHSBSA have been working on their systems to allow advance payments for clinical services. This will take [...]
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On Monday 31st March 2025, the details of the contractual settlement for 2025/26 were announced, which included changes to NMS. This news story focuses on the changes to the fees for the NMS and what pharmacy owners and their teams need to know. What can be claimed for? As part of the negotiations it was [...]
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