Department of Health (England)

Mandatory public health services provided by local authorities to be reviewed

Pharmacists have called for local needs analyses to be carried out on what additional services individual communities require…

An open letter to Keith Ridge, chief pharmaceutical officer for England

On 17 December 2015, you wrote a letter to Sue Sharpe, chief executive of the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee (PSNC), stating your position on community pharmacy in 2016/2017 and beyond. Most community pharmacists cannot recognise your ambition to put “community pharmacy at the h…

Government grants further drug concessions for January 2018

The Department of Health and Social Care has granted price concessions for 16 more drugs for January 2018…

PSNC sets out key principles to enable fairer price concession system

The Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee has set out five key principles to enable a fairer system for setting price concessions.…

New Department of Health and Social Care sets out plan for future

Newly created Department of Health and Social Care has set out a plan for its future, including social care…

Fewer regulators would simplify healthcare oversight, says the RPS

When cutting the number of healthcare regulators, care must be taken to ensure that each profession receives appropriate regulation…

Government ‘will consider’ PSNC proposals for long-term condition management as part of pharmacy contract

The government will consider proposals from the pharmacy negotiator to include a care plan service with pharmacists supporting patients with long-term conditions as part of a new Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework.…

Pharmacies will be commissioned to provide flu vaccination next winter using trivalent adjuvanted vaccine

Community pharmacies will be commissioned to administer flu vaccination to the over-65s and other high-risk groups next winter…

17 years of fighting for pharmacy

After 17 years at the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee, chief executive Sue Sharpe will be leaving her position at the end of May 2018.…

December concession prices agreed on time

Drug price concessions for generic medicines dispensed in December have been published on time, averting a repeat of the cash flow crisis which occurred in November.…