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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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Since the Autumn Budget, Community Pharmacy England has been working to ensure that the impact of the announced changes on community pharmacies is fully understood by Government, and to argue once again that community pharmacies urgently need a funding uplift. Chief Executive Janet Morrison met with Minister for Care Stephen Kinnock on the day of [...]

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Health and Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting has today outlined new measures to improve NHS performance as part of a package of NHS reforms. One aspect of the reforms is: High-performing providers will be given greater freedom over funding and flexibility. There is little incentive across the system to run budget surpluses as providers cannot [...]

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20 parliamentarians have signed a letter to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Wes Streeting MP, calling for urgent government action to safeguard the future of community pharmacies. Supported by Community Pharmacy England, the cross-party letter describes the financial challenges facing the sector and calls on the Department of Health and Social [...]

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The deadline to register interest in participating in an important fiscal review of the community pharmacy sector has been extended to Monday 18th November. With pharmacies across the country struggling to cope under intolerable financial pressures, NHS England’s independent economic review offers an opportunity to demonstrate how much it actually costs to run a pharmacy [...]

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