Services
1The pharmacy hypertension service specification is set to be updated to exclude patients who request “frequent measurement of their blood pressure”.
0The pharmacy negotiator estimates some £296m of remaining primary care recovery plan funding “will have been used by NHS England (NHSE) in other ways”, C+D has learned.
0NHS England (NHSE) has suggested that community pharmacies should offer HPV vaccinations to “raise awareness” and increase uptake of the jab.
0Find out everything you need to know about the government’s plans for community pharmacy – as outlined in this week’s long-awaited pharmacy funding deal.
0The new pharmacy contract has expanded who can deliver the smoking cessation service, as well as adding the provision of two drugs via PGDs.
8Following this week’s announcement of the long-awaited pharmacy funding deal, C+D has learned that contractors have already received the additional £106 million in retrospective funding for 2024/25.
0The government has announced an expansion to and fresh payment structure for the new medicine service (NMS) to “boost mental health support in the community”.
0The government has announced that the pharmacy quality scheme (PQS) will be “reinstated” in 2025/26 as part of the new funding deal but is “smaller than usual”.
1The government has announced that pharmacies in England will be able to undergo an “application process” to change the days and times of their core opening hours to “better serve their patients”.
1Rules that would have required pharmacies to provide three services in order to qualify for a fixed monthly payment have been delayed by two months.