National pharmacy contracts

Civil servants hear how pharmacy can help long-term conditions ahead of contract negotiations

Officials from the Department of Health and Social Care have attended parliamentary meetings focusing on how community pharmacists can help manage long-term health condtions, the chair of the All Party Pharmacy Group has said.…

Pharmacy minister says government willing to open negotiations on new pharmacy contract

Pharmacy minister Steve Brine has revealed that the Department of Health and Social Care will open negotiations on moving from a contract that rewards the dispensing of higher volumes of medicines to one that rewards care provided for patients.…

PSNC investigating unexpected drop in community pharmacy payments

The Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee has confirmed it is investigating reports of an unexpected drop in pharmacy payments, which were widely reported last week.…

New chair for Welsh body that negotiates pharmacy contracts

Mark Griffiths has been elected as the new chair of Community Pharmacy Wales, the organisation that negotiates with the Welsh government on behalf of 716 community pharmacy contractors. …

Gething confirms community pharmacy funding for Wales

The total value of the community pharmacy contract in Wales will remain at £144.3m for the 2017–2018 financial year, health secretary Vaughan Gething has reaffirmed.…

Pharmacy Voice to close in April 2017

The advocacy body will be disbanded after one of its founding member organisations announced in December 2016 that it was leaving the group at the end of 2017.…

PSNC and NPA prepare to challenge government in court over community pharmacy funding decisions

The legal challenges to the government’s decision to cut the community pharmacy budget in England — first announced in December 2015 — are due to begin in the High Court on 21 March 2017.…

The Murray review: moving in the right direction

On 20 December 2016, six days after the long-awaited report by the King’s Fund’s Richard Murray on the provision of clinical services in community pharmacy was published, health minister David Mowat described the review as “an essential road map that sets out how we are going to mo…

The people behind the biggest pharmacy stories of 2016

In our review of 2016, The Pharmaceutical Journal highlights the people behind the biggest pharmacy stories of the past 12 months. These are men and women who we considered to be the most strongly connected with the news stories that had the biggest impact on our readers.…

A decade of community pharmacy funding in England

Community pharmacies in England dispense 174 million more prescription items annually than in 2010, a figure that is predicted to rise further. Despite this, total funding for the community pharmacy contract is heading back towards 2010 levels.…