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Community Pharmacy England has urged Ministers to provide immediate funding relief to community pharmacies and warning that without this, pharmacy closures will continue, with the potential for a house of cards collapse of the sector. Writing to Ministers, Chief Executive Janet Morrison warned that without remedial action soon, there will not be a community pharmacy [...]

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Community Pharmacy England CEO Janet Morrison has given a video update on the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework (CPCF) negotiations, addressing the prolonged pause that means the sector is still without an agreement for 2024/25. In her video message, Janet addresses the continued delay in recommencing negotiations, describing the “severe frustration and intense anger” that the [...]

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Community Pharmacy England has made a submission to the Government’s development of a 10-year Health Plan for the NHS, highlighting the benefits of increased commissioning of pharmacy services in tandem with addressing the sector’s current funding gap. In October, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care launched a national conversation on the NHS, seeking [...]

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Increases to employers National Insurance contributions and the National Living Wage will cost community pharmacies £200 million a year in unplanned costs, national pharmacy bodies including Community Pharmacy England have warned today. They have told the Government that ‘without mitigation, these additional costs will push many pharmacies more towards insolvency’, leading even more to close [...]

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The Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) – supported by Community Pharmacy England, charities and patient groups – is calling on the Government to better manage medicine shortages and allow community pharmacists to supply appropriate alternatives when medicines are in short supply. A new report compiled by the RPS, Medicines Shortages: solutions for empty shelves, describes the [...]

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