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Community Pharmacy England is launching a series of digital guides to help pharmacy owners and their teams understand more about common funding and reimbursement topics. The guides will aim to help pharmacy owners and their teams to develop good practices, maximising income and reduce instances of losing money or facing delayed payments as a result [...]

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Community Pharmacy England will shortly be asking pharmacy owners and their teams to help us measure the increasing number of people relying on pharmacies. Years of financial and operational pressures are continuing to take their toll on the sector, with many community pharmacy businesses being pushed to the brink. Whilst the £645m recovery plan funding [...]

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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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