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Last month, the Drug Tariff was updated to include a deadline for submission of any outstanding referred back (unpaid) prescriptions to the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) for payment. Following this update, NHSBSA has seen a spike in the number of  referred back prescriptions submitted by pharmacies in the past month. Community Pharmacy England would like to [...]

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Pharmacy Press We at Community Pharmacy England extend our best wishes to colleagues across the sector celebrating Diwali this year. We shared the below statement with the pharmacy press. Our Chief Executive Janet Morrison said: “Happy Diwali to all community pharmacy colleagues marking this special festival. As you get together with loved ones to celebrate [...]

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Community Pharmacy England remains fully focused on improving outcomes for all community pharmacy businesses and throughout this autumn we have once again been influencing a range of important stakeholders on pharmacy’s behalf. We have been briefing influential MPs, Ministers, health charities, patient groups, think tanks, and national press journalists to highlight the critical pressures on [...]

The post Autumn 2023: How we’ve been representing and talking to you appeared first on Community Pharmacy England.

Community Pharmacy England, working with the other national pharmacy organisations, will be holding a Parliamentary event in a few weeks time to reiterate to MPs the enormous pressures that community pharmacies are under and the crippling effect that this is having on businesses of all shapes and sizes. We hope to have MPs from across [...]

The post Tell your MP about critical winter pressures appeared first on Community Pharmacy England.

Pharmacy press Minister for Women Maria Caufield said in Parliament that, as of the end of September, “well over 400,000 women in England had purchased a HRT prescription prepayment certificate”. Given that Community Pharmacy England has previously raised concerns about HRT PPCs, we were asked to comment on the situation. Our Drug Tariff and Reimbursement [...]

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