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The Health and Social Care Select Committee has now published the detailed response that we submitted to its Pharmacy Inquiry in June. Our submission highlighted important themes such as the chronic underfunding of the sector, future service provision, challenges with the pharmacy workforce, and the wider current pressures in community pharmacy. We also suggested potential [...]

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At the PRWeek 2023 awards, the public affairs agency Luther Pendragon were highly commended in the public affairs campaign category for the influencing work that they undertook with Community Pharmacy England last year. Following a competitive tender process last autumn, Luther were appointed to support Community Pharmacy England’s influencing strategy as we work to get [...]

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Community Pharmacy England held a pharmacy event and spread the word more widely about the sector’s challenges and potential at this year’s Labour Party conference in Liverpool. This followed on from the Conservative Party conference which you can read about here and built on our ongoing work to ensure the Shadow Health Team are well [...]

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Community Pharmacy England attended the Conservative Party conference in Manchester this week. We were engaging with MPs and Ministers as well as representatives from health charities, patient groups, think tanks and journalists discussing key topics relating to our sector.  Community pharmacy was referenced many times throughout the conference, which is in no small part down [...]

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Numerous MPs briefed by Community Pharmacy England took the opportunity to champion the sector and raise important issues during a Westminster Hall Debate last Thursday. Both the Minister for Health and Social Care, Neil O’Brien MP, and newly appointed Shadow Minister for Primary Care and Public Health, Preet Kaur Gill MP spoke during the debate. [...]

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