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Helping first-time independent buyers

Specialist advice can save pharmacy buyers time and help to avoid costly pitfalls, says Vinku Shah.

19 Jul 2023

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Pay rise for doctors ‘unfair’ to pharmacy, says CPE chief

Pharmacy sector needs a pay rise, Janet Morrison argues

17 Jul 2023

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Government’s £645m pharmacy services investment not enough, AIMp tells Treasury

Pharmacy First 'financially low viability' without additional core funding, officials told.

14 Jun 2023

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Pharmacist pair briefs politicians on ‘crisis’ situation in Northern Ireland

Father and daughter duo brief MLAs on funding, workload and workforce pressures threatening sector

12 Jun 2023

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Pharmacies in dispute with DH over blister pack provision

NI Department of Health says pharmacy funding demands are 'unrealistic'

13 Apr 2023

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DH imposes discount deduction hike ‘under pressure from NHSE’

Ministers impose rate increase to 20 per cent on generics after PSNC rejects it

30 Mar 2023

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Budget 2023: VAT exemption extended to services supervised by pharmacists

Exemption to include services delivered by non-registered pharmacy staff, says chancellor

16 Mar 2023

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PSNC tells Government: No PQS or new services without more funding

PSNC warns Contraception Service must be stalled without offer of extra funding

14 Mar 2023

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PSNC rejects Government’s ‘insufficient’ pricing reform proposals

DHSC offer on relief measures and price concession reform 'nowhere near far enough'

20 Feb 2023

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Social enterprise bank helps Glasgow pharmacist buy first pharmacy

Frasers Pharmacy renamed Broom Pharmacy as Clare Brogan plans to grow team

01 Feb 2023

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Banks remain keen to support pharmacy acquisitions

Hutchings Consultants said the number of pharmacies brought to market will increase as multiples “continue divestment plans.”

17 Jan 2023

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Getting your financial house in order

How will changes to the VAT penalties regime and Making Tax Digital for Income Tax affect independent pharmacies?

12 Jan 2023

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DHSC grants record 199 concessions for December

December list included £40.25 concessionary price for gapapentin 600mg tablets

03 Jan 2023

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Overpayment on prescriptions reached £43m in 2021-22

Over a million people in England overpaid because they did not buy an NHS prescription prepayment certificate

03 Jan 2023

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Community pharmacy bodies appeal for urgent investment

Community pharmacy has issued its starkest warning yet about the state of the sector in England, in a joint letter to secretary of state Steve Barclay

22 Dec 2022

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PSNC chief: Some people 'just want pharmacy to go back to 2015'

Dispensing is essential – but we must all accept that change needs to happen, says Morrison

06 Dec 2022

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