Pharmacy organisations
3The 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”.
3Seven in ten Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) members who took part in the ballot have voted in favour of controversial plans for the body to become a royal college and register as a charity.
1A 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”.
18Ministers 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.
0Consultation numbers for a pharmacy service provider’s weight management service have grown “exponentially” in the last year, C+D has learned.
2The RPS has responded to a legal letter sent by members calling for clarity over the voting process to change its charter, as well as PDA and C+D questioning on the controversial reforms.
7The pharmacy minister and pharmacist MPs Sadik Al-Hassan and Taiwo Owatemi have all voted against exempting pharmacies from the upcoming national insurance hike.
1The Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) has revealed that its director for England James Davies left the organisation in December, with the director for Wales covering the role in the interim period.
8Pharmacies will not be exempt from the upcoming rise in national insurance after MPs rejected an amendment to the law.
2MP and pharmacist Sadik Al-Hassan has said the promised community pharmacy prescribing service is “deliverable” but not ready yet.