Company Chemists' Association

Community pharmacy delivers more than 4.5 million flu vaccines in 2025/2026

NHS Business Services Authority data reveals that during the 2025/2026 flu season, the Midlands region delivered the most vaccinations through community pharmacy in England, with more than 860,000.…

PDA warns of ‘concerning’ decline in community pharmacists per pharmacy

The number of full-time equivalent pharmacists working in community pharmacy has reduced from 20,255 in 2021 to 17,415 in 2025, a PDA report says.…

CCA calls for Pharmacy First to include independent prescribing

The Company Chemists’ Association said that including pharmacist independent prescribing into Pharmacy First would enable pharmacists to “have the skills and tools to better meet patient needs”.…

Proposed standards for responsible and superintendent pharmacists ‘risk patient safety’

The Pharmacists’ Defence Association has called for the proposed standards to “explicitly prohibit the use of authorisation to facilitate remote supervision”.…

Government is reviewing enforcement mechanisms on medicines shortages reporting

In its response to a House of Lords Public Services Committee report on medicines security, the Department of Health and Social Care said it hoped to improve compliance and timeliness of shortage reporting.…

Pharmacies administered more than 10% of all vaccines in RSV pilot

The NHS pilot was aimed to test the potential for community pharmacies to increase equity in access to the respiratory syncytial virus vaccine.…

Pharmacies cut Sunday opening hours owing to ‘chronic underfunding’

Analysis of NHS data by the National Pharmacy Association has revealed that less than one-fifth of pharmacies in England open to patients on Sundays.…

Community pharmacies delivered nearly half of COVID-19 vaccines during autumn 2025 campaign

Health minister Ashley Dalton did not provide any further detail on the number of vaccinations provided during this time.…

‘Pharmacies ready’ as GPs threaten to stop providing flu jabs

A leaked letter from the British Medical Association to chief medical officer Chris Whitty has suggested that GPs felt providing flu jabs was “no longer a financially viable option”.…

Prescribing pathfinders: what’s stopping community pharmacy delivering care for long-term conditions?

A closer look at the University of Manchester’s evaluation of NHS England’s pathfinder project.…