Pharmacy Voice

Community pharmacists ‘will need support’ after pharmacy cuts announcement, says RPS

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society says community pharmacists will need widespread support from pharmacy organisations after health minister David Mowat announced community pharmacy funding cuts will be implemented from 1 December 2016.…

Establishment payments to be phased out in pharmacy funding overhaul

From December 2016, establishment payments will be gradually phased out, the Department of Health announced on 20 October 2016.…

Community pharmacy forward view sets out plans to support ‘high performing’ NHS

A vision in which pharmacy is the first port of call for non-emergency episodic care and facilitates personalised care for people with long-term conditions has been laid out by the profession.…

Pharmacy teams regularly choose not to supply OTC drugs

Community pharmacy teams regularly choose not to fulfil customers’ requests for over-the-counter (OTC) medicines, offering health advice or signposting them to other services instead, a study by Pharmacy Voice has revealed.…

Pharmacists’ Defence Association says professional standards will benefit corporate employers

Proposed new professional standards for pharmacists have been condemned as “Orwellian” by the Pharmacists’ Defence Association, which says the standards have been designed to benefit large corporate pharmacy employers.…

Petition against pharmacy cuts reaches 2 million signatures

A further 200,000 Support Your Local Pharmacy petition signatures were sent to the government on 30 June 2016, bringing the total to more than 2 million. In a covering letter to prime minister David Cameron, Ian Strachan, chair of the National Pharmacy Association, which is leading the campaig…

Campaign against community pharmacy cuts garners support from other sectors

Ten non-pharmacy organisations have signed a joint letter to the health secretary opposing the government’s proposals to cut the community pharmacy budget in England.…

PSNC, RPS and Pharmacy Voice to join forces and publish forward view for community pharmacy

Pharmacy bodies are working together to develop their own forward view as government rejects PSNC’s counterproposals to £170m cuts.…

Hub and spoke dispensing plans condemned for lack of evidence

Government plans to expand hub and spoke dispensing across community pharmacies in the UK have been condemned by pharmacy organisations because of a lack of evidence that it will bring the benefits ministers expect.…

One in four would visit GP if their local pharmacy closed

More than one in four people who would normally seek advice from their community pharmacy would go to their GP instead if the pharmacy was closed, according to the results of a survey released by Pharmacy Voice.…