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20 parliamentarians have signed a letter to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Wes Streeting MP, calling for urgent government action to safeguard the future of community pharmacies. Supported by Community Pharmacy England, the cross-party letter describes the financial challenges facing the sector and calls on the Department of Health and Social [...]

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The deadline to register interest in participating in an important fiscal review of the community pharmacy sector has been extended to Monday 18th November. With pharmacies across the country struggling to cope under intolerable financial pressures, NHS England’s independent economic review offers an opportunity to demonstrate how much it actually costs to run a pharmacy [...]

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LPCs and Community Pharmacy England met with a range of advocates and patient groups last week to reflect on the outlook for the sector a year on from the publication of the Vision for Community Pharmacy. The Annual Conference of LPCs and Community Pharmacy England held last Thursday focussed on crucial considerations for the coming year, [...]

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NHS England will be relaunching their Pharmacy First public-facing campaign on Monday 11th October 2024. Minor revisions have been made to the original campaign materials used earlier this year, including additional information on the age criteria for the clinical pathways. Ahead of the official launch, the campaign materials are available on the Department of Health [...]

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Community Pharmacy England will be hosting a webinar on the introduction of Original Pack Dispensing (OPD) on Monday 25th November at 7.30pm. In September amendments were made to the pharmacy regulations to introduce OPD +/- 10% dispensing for NHS prescriptions. From 1st January 2025, these amendments state that the supervising pharmacist must consider dispensing up to [...]

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