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Over 85% of community pharmacy owners are still yet to complete the 2025/26 Community Pharmacy Assurance Framework (CPAF) screening questionnaire.  We encourage pharmacy owners who have not yet responded to the questionnaire to ensure they do so by Thursday, 31st July 2025.  As a result of NHS regulations introduced at the end of 2020, completion [...]

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The Environment Agency has published its response to the Waste Charges Consultation, which indicates our efforts to stop an increase in charges for community pharmacies have been successful. The consultation, held in January 2025, detailed a proposal to introduce regulatory charges for all waste registrations to raise funds for the Environment Agency’s work to target [...]

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Pharmacy owners should soon receive confirmation from NHSBSA that the 2025/26 CPAF screening questionnaire will be available for completion from 1st July 2025. As a result of NHS regulations introduced at the end of 2020, completion of CPAF is now a requirement of the Terms of Service. Therefore, pharmacy owners must complete the screening questionnaire and, [...]

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Today, the new application route for rearranging core opening hours came into force. This follows on from the laying of the relevant regulations in Parliament on 2 June, see our announcement. The new application route The new application route – which is available in addition to the pre-existing route – has a single regulatory test. [...]

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Important regulatory changes to the community pharmacy sector – including those on distance selling premises (DSP) pharmacies and core opening hours – have been laid before Parliament today (2 June 2025) and will come into force in 21 days, on 23 June 2025. The amendment regulations make changes to the NHS (Pharmaceutical and Local Pharmaceutical [...]

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