Pharmacy Voice

Support Your Local Pharmacy petition attracts 1,000,000 signatures

A petition against government plans to slash £170m from the community pharmacy budget in England has attracted 1 million signatures.…

Proposed ‘Pharmacy Integration Fund’ must only support change in pharmacy, says RPS

The RPS has released an additional response to the Department of Health’s ‘Community pharmacy in 2016/17 and beyond’ consultation arguing that the pharmacy integration fund should be used for pharmacists across all care settings. …

How Claire Ward helps to give community pharmacy a voice

Claire Ward became the youngest female MP at the age of 24. She tells Emma Page about her career and explains why she now leads community pharmacy as chair of Pharmacy Voice.…

Government cuts to community pharmacy: the perspective of leaders

How should pharmacy respond to major funding cuts for community pharmacy? Leaders from pharmacy organisations and primary care share their views.…

Support your local pharmacy campaign gains traction

There have been around 250,000 expressions of support for the ‘Support your local pharmacy campaign’ since it was launched on 2 February 2016, according to Stephen Fishwick, head of communications at the National Pharmacy Association.…

Efficiency proposals for community pharmacy will not provide meaningful savings, says Pharmacy Voice

Pharmacy Voice, which represents three community pharmacy associations, has spelt out its opposition to UK government proposals to slash 6% from the national settlement for England and have described ministers’ plans for the future of the profession as “ill-conceived and inconsistent&rdq…

Making the case for community pharmacy

Two months on from the announcement that the community pharmacy contractual framework will be cut by 6% in 2016, Sandra Gidley, chair of the RPS English Pharmacy Board, talks to Julia Robinson about her thoughts on the proposed changes and what the RPS is doing to support its members through them.…

Supervision: what needs to change to move pharmacy forward?

The board set up to review medicines legislation and to advise UK government ministers on pharmacy policy is due to make recommendations on how the rules around ‘supervision’ should change.…

Backlash over 6% cut to community pharmacy funding

The government faces a strong backlash from community pharmacy bodies over plans to cut the community pharmacy contractual framework in England by 6.1% in 2016.…

Execution is key when it comes to centralised dispensing in community pharmacy

Proposals to amend legislation so that the playing field is levelled for all pharmacies to use centralised dispensing is the right move if pharmacists are to provide more clinical services.…