Community Pharmacy England

Government to ‘maximise’ Pharmacy First use as part of plan to tackle NHS waiting lists

Ear, nose and throat services will be one of five areas where targeted reforms will aim to move treatment from hospitals to the community.…

Government ‘working towards’ enabling hub-and-spoke dispensing in 2025

The proposed legislation will enable hub-and-spoke dispensing between different legal entities, changing the current rules that only permit this model of dispensing between pharmacy locations that belong to the same legal entity.…

Pharmacy contract negotiations to start in new year, says health secretary

Speaking at an evidence session held by the Health and Social Care Committee, Wes Streeting said his main focus was on “stabilising the system”.…

Seven in ten pharmacy owners are concerned financial pressures will affect patient safety this winter

More than one-third of respondents to Community Pharmacy England’s winter pressures poll said they were concerned their pharmacy businesses may not survive the winter months.…

Tackling pharmacy funding crisis crucial to NHS transformation priorities, CPE tells government

Responding to the consultation shaping the government's ten-year plan for the NHS, Community Pharmacy England called for investment to assure the sector’s “long-term stability”.…

Autumn budget could result in £200m additional annual costs for community pharmacies, finds analysis

Pharmacy bodies have called on the government to offset costs for community pharmacies related to increases in employers' national insurance contributions and the national living wage as it has done with the NHS.…

Lack of joined-up working between pharmacy and general practice is ‘nonsensical’, says former BMA chair

Speaking at a House of Commons event, Chaand Nagpaul called for pharmacy and GP contracts to be aligned “for certain pathways of care”.…

Free pharmacy advice saves 38 million GP appointments a year, CPE audit finds

Just over half of patients given unfunded pharmacy consultations said they would otherwise have contacted their GP.…

PJ view: Community pharmacy is set up to fail when it comes to industrial action

As community pharmacists consider whether to engage in advisory industrial action, it is inevitable that patient safety will be affected one way or another, which the government needs to address.…

RPS to survey members before responding to government consultation on NHS ten-year plan

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society said it wants the government to place supporting patient access to community pharmacies at the heart of any increase in neighbourhood health services.…