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From today, community pharmacies across England can offer expanded NHS services to make emergency contraception and support for people prescribed antidepressants more accessible in local communities. Under the expanded Pharmacy Contraception Service (PCS), pharmacies are able to provide women across the country access to oral emergency contraception as well as their regular contraceptive pill through [...]

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Pharmacist flexibilities “should be the norm”, Community Pharmacy England has said in a draft response to Government proposals. A Department of Health and Social Care’s (DHSC’s) consultation is proposing enabling community pharmacists to supply a different strength or formulation (which may mean a different quantity) of the same medicine originally prescribed where the prescribed medicine [...]

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Community Pharmacy England is once again leading the organisation of a joint Parliamentary drop-in event with fellow primary care bodies, continuing a long-running collaborative partnership. Following on from last year’s successful joint event, the 2026 iteration, ‘Future of Primary Care’, will be held in January and is being co-hosted with the British Dental Association, British [...]

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Community pharmacy owners are being asked to share their views and concerns as we head into winter, as well as any further feedback they have, before the next full Community Pharmacy England Committee meeting taking place in November. As pharmacy owners brace themselves for what is expected to be another challenging winter across the NHS, [...]

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Community Pharmacy England will be holding a webinar about the new hub and spoke dispensing regulations on Wednesday 29th October at 7pm. Regulations permitting hub and spoke dispensing between different retail pharmacy business came into effect earlier this month The new provisions enable all pharmacies to have hub and spoke arrangements, subject to certain requirements [...]

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