Grants and funding

Community pharmacies lose £1.6bn in eight years owing to inflation, government figures show

Health minister Will Quince has published figures showing a cumulative loss of £1.6bn for community pharmacies since 2015/2016.…

How our bursary award is helping to tackle the ethnicity awarding gap

The success story of a bursary award set up to explore the reasons behind the attainment gap in registration assessment outcomes.…

Call for ‘urgent talks’ over soaring energy costs for pharmacies

Exclusive: Industry leaders say the government needs to support and protect pharmacies through spiralling fuel costs and workforce shortages.…

Pharmacy students will have consistent funding for clinical placements for the first time

Any undergraduate placement taking place during the MPharm degree will be eligible for the £5,000 tariff 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Community pharmacies in England could lose £144m per month in early payments if the Pharmacy Earlier Payments Scheme is withdrawn.…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.…