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The Chancellor has announced his Spring Budget today, including within it two VAT changes related to community pharmacy services, which PSNC had been pressing for over several years and was a focus within our CPCF negotiations. From 1st May 2023, Government will extend the VAT exemption on healthcare to include medical services carried out by [...]

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PSNC has today told Ministers that NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) must not roll out any new or expanded services or a Pharmacy Quality Scheme in 2023/24 unless extra funding is put into community pharmacies. NHSE communications directing more patients to pharmacies also need to stop, and the DHSC [...]

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A Save Our Pharmacies campaign website has been created by leading national pharmacy bodies, to give new focus to calls for fair pharmacy funding in England. It is the latest output of a joint programme of work being coordinated by PSNC, CCA, AIM and the NPA. It comes the same day the group launched a [...]

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PSNC is looking to recruit a new Digital Communications and Policy Support Officer. This role will support both our busy communications function (we send newsletters to our c.20,000 subscribers, as well as welcoming some 8,000 people daily to our website) and our LPC and wider Contractor Support. The role will report to the Pharmacy Communications [...]

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Community pharmacy contractors can now access a recording of PSNC’s recent online workshop to help with completion of the Data Security and Protection Toolkit for 2022/2023. Feedback on the webinar “Very worthwhile watching.” “Perfect. To the point, no wasted time. Answer the questions clearly and concisely.” “I think it was long enough, slides were clear [...]

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