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LloydsPharmacy parent company sees profits tumble

LloydsPharmacy’s parent company singles out NHS “underfunding” and falling prescription numbers as challenges.

Funding cuts – are you prepared?

A new page on the NPA website provides advice about how to survive the funding cuts

Funding cuts – are you prepared?

A new page on the NPA website provides advice about how to survive the funding cuts

Time to get savvy

Time to revisit your business practices in light of funding cuts

Lords ask for funding cuts to be reconsidered

Lords call for more investment in pharmacy services rather than funding cuts

Campaign to secure your future

Ian Strachan provides an update on the NPA campaign

A visionary alternative

It is difficult to know what the final outcome will be of the government’s plans for pharmacy. I assume that the worst case scenario is that the full £170m cut originally proposed would be implemented from December. And the best case consists of whatever the Department of Health can be persuaded to do as a result of further negotiations and campaigning.

There is no doubt that the strength of representations, including over two million signatures on a petition, has not passed unnoticed by politicians and government officials.

Funding cuts "an outrage", says Numark

Numark chief executive John D'Arcy warns of an "imbalance" in government thinking over cuts

No contractor immune to cuts, says Celesio

Celesio's Cormac Tobin calls government handling of funding cuts "grossly disingenuous"

NPA calls cuts a "slap in the face"

NPA chairman Ian Strachan vows to fight on against funding cuts

Government imposes funding cut

PSNC criticises government's "short-sighted and ill-judged" imposition of funding cuts

Funding cuts could be implemented within weeks

Pharmacy funding cuts could happen within weeks, despite recent claims that the government would re-think

Cuts delayed pending government rethink

Pharmacy minister announces decision on cuts to be delayed, but gives no more details

Keep calm and carry on

Business as usual for community pharmacy, while decision on funding cuts still to be announced

A nail-biting wait

Brexit has introduced a great deal of uncertainty concerning the future of the of the British economy. Investments are being delayed and the markets are jittery.

Let’s be honest – we all like certainty. Being certain about something enables us to plan, to invest and to look to the future with confidence.

So what should we make of the fact that Parliament has broken for its summer recess and the expected announcement regarding the government’s plans to cut funding for pharmacy in England by £170 million has not been made?

NPA praises campaigners as no cuts announced

Expected deadline for funding cuts announcement passes with no word