Independents
0The National Pharmacy Association (NPA) has announced that Henry Gregg will join the organisation in May as its new chief executive – so what do we know about him so far?
0The National Pharmacy Association (NPA) has announced the appointment of its new chief executive, who will join the organisation in May.
7The pharmacy minister has urged the NPA to “reconsider” its call for member pharmacies to take collective action from next week, arguing that it will be “detrimental to patients”.
21Ministers have stressed that the core hours of pharmacies will “not be affected by the proposed action by one trade body” – and revealed that the government has “concluded” contract negotiations.
9The National Pharmacy Association (NPA) has announced that it is advising its 6,000 member pharmacies to limit services and reduce opening hours in protest against “unsustainable” funding.
2Award-winning Wicker Pharmacy has moved out of one of its premises in the hope this will save up to £60,000 a year to stay “sustainable”, it told C+D.
1M&D Green has bought nine Scottish community pharmacies from Northern Ireland-based Gordons Chemists in its “largest acquisition to date”.
0Award-winning Wicker Pharmacy in Sheffield has celebrated 73 years of late opening “every single day”.
0A Norfolk pharmacy has been forced to ask patients to pick up their medicines from another collection point after a tree smashed through its roof on New Year’s Eve.
0NPA analysis has revealed that the £20 million Pharmacy Access Scheme funded by the pharmacy contract failed to protect dozens of isolated pharmacies from closing since 2022.
0The National Pharmacy Association’s (NPA) chief executive will step down from the organisation and move to the nurses’ regulator in the new year, it has announced.
0Stephen Kinnock has visited a community pharmacy for the “first” time since his appointment as pharmacy minister in July to “better understand the challenges” facing the sector.
0An employment judge has found that a pharmacy must pay an employee unpaid pay, holiday pay and notice pay – but the pharmacy plans to appeal, C+D has learned.
0Pharmacy leaders have revealed that “work to rule” collective action is on the cards for pharmacy if the sector doesn’t get the “right answer” on government funding.
0The UK’s “second largest independent pharmacy chain” delivered profits of £8m in 2023 as sales topped £500m
0The pharmacy body will deliver its 300,000-signature-strong petition to the Prime Minister and health Secretary on of the second “day of action” next month.
0In less than 24 hours, two UK pharmacies have been damaged by fires – one by a suspected electrical fault and the other “started deliberately”, staff have been “led to believe”.
0"I'm really, really, scared. I don't want to give the wrong information and I don't want to give the wrong product. And I don't know if I'm ever going to know enough to do it."
0The IPA has joined forces with three other primary care organisations to write to Wes Streeting requesting a meeting over the future of primary care.
0Pharmacies across the UK are set to sound an alarm or ring a bell in a coordinated protest action on September 19, the National Pharmacy Association (NPA) has revealed to C+D.