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Community Pharmacy England met with health stakeholders last week (Thursday 24th April) to brief them on the impact of the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework settlement for 2024/25 and 2025/26 on patients and the pharmacy sector. During the event, attendees heard more about the new funding and contractual arrangements, including how the changes will affect community pharmacies, [...]

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Further information and details about margin delivery have been released to help explain the arrangements in a clearer way. Funding arrangements for community pharmacies, particularly the processes around delivery of retained margin, are not straightforward and it can be difficult for pharmacy owners to predict the impact of any changes on their businesses. Since the [...]

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The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has launched a new campaign to help increase awareness of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Targeted at younger adults, the campaign aims to build support for the behaviours that will help keep antibiotics working. Over the course of six weeks, the character ‘Andi Biotic’ will be popping up to make sure [...]

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On Monday 31st March 2025, the details of the contractual settlement for 2025/26 were announced, which included several changes to regulations. This news story summarises key information on regulatory changes that has been released since the announcement of the settlement. Regulatory changes Likely to be in force/effective from How Comment  DSPs – will only be able to [...]

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On Monday 31st March 2025, the details of the contractual settlement for 2025/26 were announced, which included changes to regulations around core opening hours. This news story highlights key information within the briefing that we released after the announcement of the settlement. Amendment of regs’ test for changing the days and times of core opening hours  [...]

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