Grants and funding

Majority of pharmacies can expect to receive first COVID-19 funding payments from October 2021

Simon Dukes, chief executive of the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee, has said that the “overwhelming majority” of community pharmacy contractors will be paid their claim for costs incurred during the COVID-19 pandemic in full.…

More community pharmacies closed in 2021 but rate has slowed

Exclusive: An analysis of NHS Digital data by The Pharmaceutical Journal has revealed a net closure of 64 community pharmacies in England up to the end of August 2021, compared with a net closure of 136 pharmacies in the same time period in 2020.…

Pharmacies to get up to £1,800 in extra contract funding for providing heart checks

The Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee has announced it has secured additional funding as an incentive for community pharmacies to run a hypertension case-finding advanced service.…

Pharmacies could lose £140m in advance funding if payment scheme closes

Exclusive: Community pharmacies in England could lose £144m per month in early payments if the Pharmacy Earlier Payments Scheme is withdrawn.…

More funding needed to meet ‘NHS long-term plan’, pharmacy leads warn

Pharmacy leads responsible for an area that covers 1.5 million people have warned that “urgent action” to increase pharmacy training funds is needed if the pharmacy workforce is to deliver on the ‘NHS long-term plan’. …

GPhC ‘concerned’ over planned cuts to NHS preregistration training

Exclusive: The chair of the General Pharmaceutical Council has said he is “concerned” that planned cuts to preregistration training could make it more difficult to ensure that pharmacists can meet the changing demands of the NHS.…

Funding for preregistration pharmacists to be cut by up to 25% across England, HEE announces

Salary support funding for NHS preregistration places across England will be cut to 75% from September 2020, Health Education England has announced.…

Call for grant applications: Commonwealth Partnerships for Antimicrobial Stewardship

Funding has been made available from the Department of Health and Social Care, through the Fleming Fund, to support implementation of antimicrobial stewardship activities in four low or middle-income commonwealth countries: Ghana, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. The fundi…

Government provides £32m for innovative antimicrobial resistance research

Up to £32m of funding will be awarded to the NHS, universities and research organisations for research into antimicrobial resistance, the Department of Health and Social Care has announced. …

Pharmacist awarded £350k to improve adherence in bipolar disorder

A mental health pharmacist at Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust has received a grant to improve medicines adherence in patients with bipolar disorder.…