Pharmacy press Official figures reveal that the number of patients waiting four weeks or more to see a GP increased across all regions of England last year. According to the analysis conducted by the Liberal Democrats, patients were forced to wait 28 days or longer to see a GP on 17.6 million occasions last year, [...]
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The start of April 2024, marks the end of the five-year Contractual Framework arrangement which was agreed in the summer of 2019. Negotiations on the arrangements for the coming financial year – 2024/25 – are still in progress between Community Pharmacy England, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and NHS England. Until these [...]
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The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), under the direction of Ministers, has this week published the April Drug Tariff introducing changes to their approach to concessions pricing. These changes, which are untested, have been imposed by the Government without our agreement and Community Pharmacy England opposes them in the strongest terms. No recovery [...]
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Community Pharmacy England Chief Executive Janet Morrison has contacted the chair of the Health and Social Care Committee Steve Brine MP following the Committee’s latest pharmacy inquiry session earlier this week (26 March). At this week’s session the Committee heard from pharmacy minister, Andrea Leadsom MP, as well as from Amanda Doyle and David Webb [...]
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Pharmacy owners and their teams are being asked to share their experiences through the 2024 Pharmacy Pressures Survey. The situation for community pharmacy is at crisis point, and in this short video our Chief Executive Janet Morrison explains how you can help to support our work pressing for sustainable funding. Community Pharmacy continues to provide [...]
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