New figures reported by the Company Chemists’ Association (CCA) show that there has been a record net loss of 432 pharmacies in England over the past financial year (2023/24) – an average of more than 8 pharmacies closing each week. Core funding for community pharmacy in England has been cut in real-terms by 30%, having [...]
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The public is receptive to Pharmacy First but more needs to be done to increase awareness of and further develop pharmacy services, a new report from Healthwatch England finds. The ‘Pharmacy: what people want‘ report, published today (30th April), calls on the Government to issue targeted communications to raise awareness of the Pharmacy First service, [...]
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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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