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Community Pharmacy England has made a submission to the Government’s development of a 10-year Health Plan for the NHS, highlighting the benefits of increased commissioning of pharmacy services in tandem with addressing the sector’s current funding gap. In October, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care launched a national conversation on the NHS, seeking [...]

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Increases to employers National Insurance contributions and the National Living Wage will cost community pharmacies £200 million a year in unplanned costs, national pharmacy bodies including Community Pharmacy England have warned today. They have told the Government that ‘without mitigation, these additional costs will push many pharmacies more towards insolvency’, leading even more to close [...]

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The Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) – supported by Community Pharmacy England, charities and patient groups – is calling on the Government to better manage medicine shortages and allow community pharmacists to supply appropriate alternatives when medicines are in short supply. A new report compiled by the RPS, Medicines Shortages: solutions for empty shelves, describes the [...]

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Since the Autumn Budget, Community Pharmacy England has been working to ensure that the impact of the announced changes on community pharmacies is fully understood by Government, and to argue once again that community pharmacies urgently need a funding uplift. Chief Executive Janet Morrison met with Minister for Care Stephen Kinnock on the day of [...]

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Health and Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting has today outlined new measures to improve NHS performance as part of a package of NHS reforms. One aspect of the reforms is: High-performing providers will be given greater freedom over funding and flexibility. There is little incentive across the system to run budget surpluses as providers cannot [...]

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