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Pharmacy press The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) published its annual statistics report Prescription Cost Analysis – England 2022/23, which shows that in 2022/23, 1.18 billion prescription items where dispensing in the community in England at a cost of £10.4 billion. This was an 8% increase from £9.69 billion in 2021/22. Director of Pharmacy Funding, [...]

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Pharmacy press The Pharmaceutical Journal’s annual salary and job satisfaction survey found that a third of 1,578 pharmacists say they are unable to supply medicines to ten or more patients per week because of medicine shortages. The survey also found that 50% of respondents reported medicine shortages as a source of stress and 15% spend [...]

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PSNC has today (30th May) become Community Pharmacy England, with a strengthened commitment to championing community pharmacies and engaging with the sector. Community pharmacies are under immense pressures and need a strong and powerful voice to represent them to Government and the NHS. We are that voice, and we are currently working hard through the [...]

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From May 30th we will be known as Community Pharmacy England, with new branding designed to be more impactful and authoritative, helping us to better represent community pharmacy. Alongside the name change we will be starting to implement a new engagement and communications strategy to open up a better dialogue with pharmacy owners (our members). This is [...]

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Following the Government announcement of a significant investment into community pharmacies, we will be holding a webinar at 7pm on Monday 22nd May to explain to pharmacy owners what will happen next and to hear your views. This week Government announced a £645m investment into community pharmacies to support both some existing services and to [...]

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