National pharmacy contracts

Pharmacy contracts: where the money goes

Funding for the national community pharmacy contracts in England, Scotland and Wales is distributed differently. Here is a breakdown of how the three countries fund pharmacy services.…

Integrating pharmacy care with a modernised community pharmacy contract

I read with interest ‘What would you like to see in the new community pharmacy contract?’, published by The Pharmaceutical Journal in May 2018. I think it is interesting that everyone has talked about managing some form of long-term condition. These are very much services linked to …

What would you like to see in the new community pharmacy contract?

While the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee and the Department of Health and Social prepare for contract negotiations, The Pharmaceutical Journal asked community pharmacists on the frontline to redesign the contractual framework.…

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.…