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Community Pharmacy England met in London for a full Committee meeting on 4th and 5th February. Committee Members examined economic and other analysis to confirm key negotiating positions for the imminent 2026/27 contractual negotiations, looking at a wide range of topics including funding needs, services, infrastructure investment, and regulatory reform. The Department of Health and Social Care and [...]

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The NHS has introduced a new Information Standard for the Reasonable Adjustment Digital Flag (RADF). This standard outlines how health and care providers can record and share information about patients who require reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act 2010. The RADF will be used across the NHS to help staff understand a person’s needs quickly [...]

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In November last year, we reported a number of concerns about EPS pharmacy nominations and re-nominations without patient consent.  We also said we were concerned that certain IT functionality available to some pharmacy owners appeared to facilitate automatic patient re-nomination (without patient consent) and were discussing this issue with NHS England.  We can confirm that NHS England agreed with our concerns and wrote to pharmacy [...]

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The Department of Health and Social Care launched a public consultation on proposed amendments to the Health Service Products (Provision and Disclosure of Information) Regulations. The Regulations, introduced in 2018, enable the Department to collect information on the costs of medicines, appliances, and borderline substances to be dispensed for the NHS. The key impact on [...]

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Pharmacy owners have one week left to make their Pharmacy Quality Scheme (PQS) 2025/26 declaration through the MYS portal, as the window for claiming this payment will then close. Pharmacy owners must have evidence to demonstrate meeting the gateway criterion and the domains that they have claimed for by the end of 31st March 2026. However, pharmacy [...]

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