Cost of service inquiry ‘almost final’, says PSNC

This review has taken forever and a day to come about and as such if we held on and decided to not negotiate it would probably be considered out of date. My opinion is yes the government will try its damnedest to reduce pharmacy funding but then aren't they already doing that anyway.

This should give pharmacy the proof to show the current contract is not remunerating pharmacies with a fair return for its work and thus "I hope" call a reversal to the current 5% annual raid to pharmacies prescription payments, which is totally unsustainable. I'm not asking for the PSNC to negotiate a miracle here in today financial climate but when we were asked to vote on this contract so many years ago we were promised a "fair" package and we were given was a promise of an annual ram raid on pharmacy funding!!