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Photo credit: parliamentlive.tv Pharmacies’ ability to manage medicines shortages is constrained by cashflow and reimbursement pressures, with reforms to allow pharmacists greater flexibility to make substitutions sorely needed, Community Pharmacy England has told a Parliamentary inquiry. Dr. James Davies, Director of Research and Insights at Community Pharmacy England, gave oral evidence to the House of [...]

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Pharmacy owners have just over two weeks left to complete the 2025 workforce survey, which is a mandatory requirement for all pharmacy owners. The NHS Business Services Authority sent an email to pharmacy owners containing a link to the survey in September. In some cases, for example, if you work for a multiple pharmacy group, the [...]

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Last year Community Pharmacy England and Healthwatch England launched an online Pharmacy First patient survey that pharmacy owners can direct patients to after receiving the service. The aim of this collaboration is to collect patient feedback on the service to help inform service improvements and to help to quantify the value of the service to [...]

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NHS-approved pharmacy clinical services IT systems have the functionality to receive referrals from other NHS providers, such as general practices. In many cases, these referrals are sent from the referrer’s IT system to the pharmacy system using IT functionality defined by the NHS Booking and Referral IT Standard (BaRS). What’s changed? The GP IT system, [...]

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The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has today (03/11/2025) confirmed the following final list of price concessions for October 2025. The final list for October 2025 includes seven further price concessions and improved prices for two products following representations made by Community Pharmacy England on behalf of community pharmacy owners. Drug Pack size Price concession [...]

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