Pharmacists face financial strain under new drug tariff

Changes to methadone will certainly affect pharmacies depending on the collection habit of the methadone RX. Daily collection not a big loss but once weekly pick up (which says dispense in advance daily dose containers) certainly buggerd!
However, with category M cut backs I am not sure how much will it affect indivudal contractors. We are getting paid fairly on a 500g tub of aqueous cream but on the other hand aricept and seroquel will certainly affect the contractors who mainly deal with mental health.
Only time will tell how much it affects indivudal contractors until then lets wait and anticipate more surprises when the new ''evolutionary'' contract gets revealed in october this year.
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The Governments swingeing attacks on pharmacy contractors is utterly deplorable. They continually eat away at what meagre margins pharmacists have. Why is the Government so comfortable with this destruction of contractors lielihood? As a Iocum, I have had £2.50 an hour sliced off my rate working for one of the multiples as a consequence of the Goverments butchery/demolition of Retail Pharmacy as we know it! We must speak to our local MP's and ask them to intervene for the sake of the future of pharmacy.

I think all pharmacies need to get together and issue a judicial review asap and if all pharmacies share the cost it would bee viable. Also unless we take a step forward we cannot show we can stand for our rights. Thus email tariqiqbal@nhs.net if you would like to join and issue immediate judicial review by appointing a law firm.

”. My take on this “simplification” is that the PPD have not managed to reduce their costs by the amount they promised when they kept their contract when it was up for tender, so by cutting down the number of operators needed to process the scripts in the red separators they will reduce their costs. From past underpayments cited in the pharmaceutical press I don’t believe for one minute contractors will be paid the snipping fee accurately. How is anyone going to monitor this? Cegedimrx have no report on how many snipping fees we should expect to be paid, as yet – I’m working on them. PSNC and the PPD collusion, sound far-fetched? – read Barclays and any of the large banks you care to mention. Or are PSNC so gullible they don’t see it.