The Pharmacist

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Any dispensations to provide financial relief for health bodies impacted by rising National Insurance contributions should include community pharmacy, Community Pharmacy England (CPE) has stressed.

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Community Pharmacies 136

The Pharmacist

MAY 30, 2024

Funding has been announced for new community pharmacy PCN engagement lead roles to support the implementation of the access recovery plan. The role will be the point of contact between community pharmacies and general practices within PCNs.

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Community Pharmacies 114

pharmaphorum

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Community pharmacies play a crucial role in bridging health inequalities and empowering communities. Learn how the NHS and community pharmacies work together to improve health outcomes for all.

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Community Pharmacies 106

The Pharmacist

MARCH 5, 2024

Several pharmacy bodies have joined forces to launch a joint manifesto for community pharmacy ahead of the general election expected this year.

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The Pharmacist

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Community pharmacy could consider 'working to rule' under GP-style collective action, sector leaders have suggested. Since 1 […] The post Community pharmacy could consider 'working to rule', say CPE and NPA appeared first on The Pharmacist.

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Community Pharmacies 123

The Pharmacist

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Local systems need to talk to community pharmacies about how they can help improve population health, a local pharmaceutical committee (LPC) leader has urged.

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Community Pharmacies 117

The Pharmacist

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The National Pharmacy Association (NPA) and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) have urged the government and NHS to value community pharmacy as part of primary care, during a Covid-19 inquiry meeting today.

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Community Pharmacies 118

The Pharmacist

JULY 5, 2024

Negotiating the new community pharmacy contract will be one of the first tasks of the new Labour government, Community Pharmacy England (CPE) has said. But even in a 'best-case scenario', negotiations might not begin for several weeks, CPE suggested.

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Community Pharmacies 119

The Pharmacist

JUNE 12, 2024

EXCLUSIVE: The Pharmacist mapped community pharmacy closures across England over the last five years, and uncovered a net loss of more than 1,000 bricks and mortar pharmacies since 2019.

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Community Pharmacies 111

The Pharmacist

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Pharmacy bodies have called for 2024/25 winter vaccination programme planning to include key parties such as community pharmacy ‘at an appropriately early stage’.

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The Pharmacist

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The negotiator for community pharmacies in Scotland has reached a deal on funding for the sector for 2024/25, it has announced. It gives the sector […] The post BREAKING: Community Pharmacy Scotland gets 6% global sum uplift appeared first on The Pharmacist.

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Community Pharmacies 108

The Pharmacist

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Community pharmacies should shift further into clinical service provision, with the dispensing of medication becoming an ‘increasingly automated’ side offering, NHS England’s primary care director has said.

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Community Pharmacies 111

The Pharmacist

OCTOBER 10, 2024

A commissioned 'repeat prescription review' service in community pharmacy should be explored to improve medicines adherence and patient understanding, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) and Royal College of GPs (RCGP) have suggested.

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Community Pharmacies 111

The Pharmacist

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

GP leaders in England will vote on whether to lobby NHS England to ‘appropriately’ fund dispensing in community pharmacies and to put an end to pitting the two sectors against each other. The national Local Medical Committee (LMCs) conference later this month will debate a motion focused on the ‘necessity’ of community pharmacy.

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Community Pharmacies 121

The Pharmacist

JUNE 4, 2024

NPA chief executive Paul Rees announced the association's 'One Day to Save Our Pharmacies' initiative this morning and said it hoped to 'show the politicians there's a state of […] The post BREAKING: NPA plans 'day of action' to save community pharmacy appeared first on The Pharmacist.

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Community Pharmacies 122

The Pharmacist

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The importance of the community pharmacy sector in addressing England’s health service challenges has been underlined by two recently published academic studies.

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Community Pharmacies 115

The Pharmacist

MAY 28, 2024

EXCLUSIVE Pharmacists across primary care are united in wanting support for community pharmacy to be a top priority for the next government, our snapshot survey has suggested. For pharmacists across general practice and community, support for community pharmacy ranked as a high priority issue, alongside better pay for all NHS staff.

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Community Pharmacies 109

The Pharmacist

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The Department of Health and Social Care has refuted a claim that it has failed to meet a commitment to review the funding model for community pharmacy.

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Community Pharmacies 117

The Pharmacist

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Pharmacy minister Dame Andrea Leadsom has committed to ensuring the community pharmacy sector is appropriately resourced in order to ensure the success of Pharmacy First, in a parliamentary debate held this week.

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Community Pharmacies 99

The Pharmacist

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Almost two-thirds (62%) of pharmacy team members have reported a reduced ability to offer services or advice to patients because of staffing shortages, a survey by Community Pharmacy England (CPE) has revealed.

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Community Pharmacies 96

The Pharmacist

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Community pharmacy leaders have called for urgent action to 'stop the rot' of pharmacy closures and to invest in the sector, following Lord Ara Darzi's report into the state of the NHS.

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Community Pharmacies 100

Pharmaceutical Commerce

OCTOBER 31, 2024

With today's pharmacy landscape shaken by unprecedented and wider disruption to healthcare support and delivery, community and independent entities strive to remain an integral cog in the mix.

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Community Pharmacies 124

The Pharmacist

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

NHS England (NHSE) should commission community pharmacies to deliver a wider range of NHS vaccines including pneumonia, shingles, meningitis, RSV and routine childhood vaccinations, the Company Chemists' Association (CCA) has said.

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The Pharmacist

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Community pharmacists were treated as an ‘afterthought’ by a system that saw the sector as a lower priority during the pandemic, according to former health and social care secretary Matt Hancock.

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Community Pharmacies 60

The Pharmacist

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Health and social care secretary Wes Streeting is 'working through' a funding package to stabilise the community pharmacy sector, he has said.

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Community Pharmacies Packaging 52

The Pharmacist

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Informal referrals to community pharmacies deprive pharmacies of more than £115 million each year, Community Pharmacy England (CPE) has estimated. Although funding […] The post Informal referrals deprive pharmacies of 'more than £115m a year' appeared first on The Pharmacist.

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Community Pharmacies 132

The Pharmacist

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Matt Hancock’s evidence to the Covid-19 Inquiry this week sent an all too familiar shiver through the spine of everyone in community pharmacy. For so many of us, Mr Hancock's admission that community pharmacies were an ‘afterthought’ during the pandemic sums up how we feel about the state of our sector today.

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Community Pharmacies 132

The Pharmacist

MARCH 12, 2024

Working together with other healthcare professions will be crucial to embedding community pharmacy within the future of the NHS, pharmacist and academic Dr Mahendra Patel has told The Pharmacist.

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The Pharmacist

JUNE 20, 2024

The Pharmacist caught up with National Pharmacy Association (NPA) chief executive Paul Rees during today's ‘day of action’ to save community pharmacies, at a branch of Green Light Pharmacy in central London. Paul, tell us how the Save Our Pharmacies day of action campaign has been going today?

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Community Pharmacies 135

The Pharmacist

JULY 16, 2024

Community pharmacies in south-east London have launched what is believed to be England’s only nationally-funded inhaler recycling pilot. Patients will be encouraged to return their used or expired inhalers to one of 20 participating community pharmacies.

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Community Pharmacies 131

The Pharmacist

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Negotiations on the delayed community pharmacy contract in England are expected to resume 'soon', Community Pharmacy England (CPE) has said following a meeting with the pharmacy minister.

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Community Pharmacies 119

The Pharmacist

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The latest workforce survey suggests a decrease in the number of qualified pharmacists and pharmacy technicians working in community pharmacy in England between 2022 and 2023.

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Pharmacy Technician Community Pharmacies 129

The Pharmacist

AUGUST 1, 2024

Community pharmacy has lost much of its ability 'to be a shock absorber' for other parts of primary care, sector leaders have warned as GP collective action begins today. And they have called for 'a new deal' for the community pharmacy sector in addition to resolving government disputes with GPs.

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Community Pharmacies 127

The Pharmacist

DECEMBER 13, 2023

A new national vaccine strategy for England promises to ‘take vaccines into the heart of communities’ and overcome vaccine hesitancy.

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Community Pharmacies Vaccines 138

The Pharmacist

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The government will 'continue to discuss' issues raised around its proposed hub-to-patient model of hub and spoke dispensing with the community pharmacy negotiator, Community Pharmacy England (CPE) has said. And it suggested briefing new ministers before changes could be implemented 'could take some time'.

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Community Pharmacies 115

The Pharmacist

AUGUST 29, 2024

Medicines shortages and unavailability of community pharmacy staff are affecting adult social care providers in the UK, a survey by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and Ipsos has suggested.

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Community Pharmacies 124

The Pharmacist

MAY 17, 2024

Community pharmacy negotiators in Scotland will not begin conversations about how new hub and spoke legislation will affect NHS dispensing until the sector has its funding in place for 2024/25, Community Pharmacy Scotland (CPS) has confirmed to The Pharmacist.

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Community Pharmacies 126