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The first casualty of the pharmacy "crisis" in Northern Ireland will be seen within weeks, prompting a “snowball effect” of further closures, the country's negotiator has warned.
Pharmacy owners have “a matter of weeks”, and “certainly no more than a couple of months”, before they will be forced to close as a result of the country's ongoing funding crisis, Community Pharmacy Northern Ireland (CPNI) chief executive Gerard Greene told C+D last week (October 31).
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2Chair of the National Pharmacy Association (NPA) Nick Kaye has said that he “definitely wouldn't be thinking about a U-turn” on collective action, amid “real anger” over a lack of April cash.
The pharmacy hypertension service specification is set to be updated to exclude patients who request “frequent measurement of their blood pressure”.
CPE is recruiting a new independent chair to “provide strategic leadership” – the position pays £50k a year and only requires a “time commitment” of 3-4 working days per calendar month.
A health and social care think tank has revealed that the “elevated and troubling level” of medicine shortages in the UK can be blamed on Brexit.
A Westminster think tank has said that the government’s proposed Neighbourhood Health Service, which plans to scale up general practice, could put community pharmacies at risk of being “deprioritised”.
