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Community Pharmacy England has made changes to its constitution and rules to enable the formation of a rebalanced Committee from April 2027. In the latest step on a journey to better reflect the make-up of the sector, the constitutional adjustments implement the decision made in June 2026 to make a series of interim composition changes [...]

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Community Pharmacy England will be taking pharmacy owners’ priorities to key audiences throughout the upcoming political party conference season, continuing our work to influence national decision-makers. As the political parties gather for their annual conferences, our planned engagement programme will underline the potential of community pharmacy, highlighting that investment in the sector would lead to [...]

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Ahead of the introduction of independent prescribing in CPCF services, Community Pharmacy England has raised concerns about the NHS IT arrangements. Note, the below comment was first quoted in P3pharmacy. Our Director of NHS Services, Alastair Buxton, said: “The interim IT arrangements for the rollout of prescribing within the CPCF are far from ideal, with [...]

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Community pharmacies received strong cross-party backing in Parliament this week, with MPs warning that the Government’s ambitions for more care in the community cannot be delivered unless pharmacy funding is put on a sustainable footing. Yesterday’s Westminster Hall debate, sponsored by Leicester East MP Shivani Raja, focused on Government funding for local pharmacies and the [...]

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NHS England has today announced quicker treatment of migraines, acne, scabies, ear infections and rhinitis through the expansion of the Pharmacy First service (see NHS England press release). This has been covered by some media outlets (including BBC News and LBC News) and the official press release includes a comment from Community Pharmacy England: Janet [...]

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