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Pharmacy on brink of ‘uncontrolled series of closures’, NPA warns PSNC

The current pharmacy funding situation is “unacceptable and untenable” and the National Pharmacy Association (NPA) is “very concerned that we are on...

11/06/2019 22

Xrayser: Government's approach to pharmacy puts the whole NHS at risk

I’m writing this article on June 6. On this day, 75 years ago, my father landed in Normandy, France at the intersection of Gold and Juno beaches with...

10/06/2019 0

Give warning of new services agreed in contract, members tell PSNC

Negotiations for a new pharmacy funding contract, which began in April, are covering areas as diverse as the future of the medicines use review (MUR...

05/06/2019 6

PSNC: Medicines shortages are impacting contractors' cashflow

Generics shortages set to continue, despite Bristol Labs reinstatement

As one of the UK’s largest generics manufacturers, the suspension of Bristol Laboratories’ licence in 2017 prompted severe shortages, which the...

05/06/2019 0

Simon Dukes: It would be irresponsible of me not to tell the DH what state the sector is in

Pharmacy is financially 'on its knees', PSNC tells government

PSNC CEO Simon Dukes said the Department of Health and Social Care (DH) “needs to understand what the state of the sector is”. “I visit a lot of...

28/05/2019 15

Pharmacies still had to perform standard exemption checks in more than half of piloted cases

8,500 exemptions digitally checked in prescription fraud crackdown

The real-time exemption checking (RTEC) system – which is currently being used in four pharmacies in Manchester, Oldham, Leeds and Cleethorpes –...

17/05/2019 13

Simon Dukes: The big items we're pushing for in funding negotiations

Any pharmacy owners who have been reading C+D will know by now that the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee’s (PSNC) negotiations with the...

16/05/2019 3