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Streeting and Kinnock say it will be a ‘New Year’ start for pharmacy contract negotiations

 
• By Ben Lee and Molly Bowcott

Health secretary says funding negotiations will begin “shortly in the new year” as pharmacy minister says the delay is because negotiations “did not get over the line before the general election”.

Portraits of UK pharmacy minister Stephen Kinnock and UK health secretary Wes Streeting
Streeting: “I see, as does Stephen Kinnock, a bigger role for community pharmacy”

Pharmacy minister Stephen Kinnock will be starting the community pharmacy contractual framework (CPCF) negotiations “shortly in the new year”, the health secretary revealed today (December 18).

Speaking at a Health and Social Care (HSC) Committee public evidence session on the government’s 10 Year Health Plan, Wes...

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