On Monday (March 31), the Department of Health and Social Care (DH) and Community Pharmacy England (CPE) finally published the new community pharmacy contractual framework (CPCF).
They announced a £3.073 billion contract for 2025/26, among other things...
The main headlines include:
News
- BREAKING: New 2025 CPCF funding deal - uplift revealed
- Pharmacies to offer free morning-after pill from October
- New contract: NPA to ‘consult’ members on collective action
- CPE ‘reluctantly accepted’ funding offer amid ‘impossible position’
- New Pharmacy First cash, bands and thresholds agreed
- Pharmacy First, contraception and BP ‘bundling’ delayed
- Pharmacies can ‘change’ core hours under new contract
- Government to ‘review’ margin system and faster Cat M process
- ‘Smaller than usual’ PQS reinstated under new funding deal
- Antidepressants added to NMS from October
- Revealed: 2024/25 contract cash uplift already paid
- Pharmacy stop-smoking service expands to ‘non-registered’ staff
- CPE: Almost half of £645m recovery plan funds unspent
- DH to place ‘explicit restrictions’ on funded blood pressure checks
- Nick Kaye: ‘The NPA isn’t in any mood to back down’
- Govt to ‘streamline’ NHSBSA claims via ‘up to’ £8m IT budget
- PDA releases ‘six-step test’ for the next funding contract
- Contractors to receive April and May SAF uplift ‘sooner’
- ‘Anti-competitive’ contract favours bricks-and-mortars, DSPs protest
Analysis
- Health minister Stephen Kinnock on the 2025 funding deal: ‘I know it’s not perfect, but...’
- Funding breakdown: Write-offs, service payments and activity fees
- NICs hike: Has anything changed for pharmacies post contract?
- What could the next pharmacy funding deal include?
- Contract timeline at a glance: What is happening when?
Opinion
- ‘CPE is falling into a trap’ - pharmacy reacts to funding deal
- ‘Staring down the barrel’ or a ‘positive first step’?
- Contract: It’s fair to say the deal agreed is simply not enough
- ‘Pharmacists are paid about the same as a 2nd class stamp’
- Two-thirds dissatisfied with the CPCF funding deal
- Political Pills: What comes next for those able to keep the doors open?
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