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CPE data shows 96% of pharmacy owners are “concerned” or “very concerned” that “their business may not survive this winter” as Sadik Al-Hassan MP is “eager to see this government avoid mistakes made during the past 14 years that have brought our sector to a crisis point”.

Health secretary says funding negotiations will begin “shortly in the new year” as pharmacy minister says the delay is because negotiations “did not get over the line before the general election”.

The Northern Irish Department of Health (DH) has announced that “an additional £15m” will be invested into community pharmacy and GP pharmacy by April 2027, “subject to additional funding”.

Almost 30% of US retail pharmacies closed in the decade between 2010 and 2021, a new study has revealed.

New analysis by the National Pharmacy Association (NPA) has found that the UK is “one of the worst countries in the OECD” for pharmacy provision.

A pharmacy group has warned that pharmacists have been “inadvertently undermined” and are at risk of being “sidelined” by recent government policies aimed at “upskilling pharmacy technicians”.

The “first” NHS Mounjaro patients of a possible 3.4 million are set to receive the weight loss jab by March 2025, NICE has revealed in new draft guidance, while the first generic GLP-1 weight loss drug could soon follow.

CPE has expressed “severe frustration and intense anger” as it reveals that pharmacy contract negotiations are “stuck” between the Department of Health and Social Care (DH) and NHS England (NHSE).

New analysis of pharmacy closure data has found that pharmacies “will cease trading” within 15 years if nothing is done to stop closures.

The four pharmacy bodies have together urged the government to “shield community pharmacies from…increased costs and measures” introduced in the October budget.