Pharmacy 2021/22 funding stays at £2.592bn, as PSNC’s demand for increase rejected
• By Aleks Phillips
The total budget for the community pharmacy sector in England will not change for the third year in a row, PSNC has announced, following HM Treasury’s “flat rejection” of its demand for a funding uplift.
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