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Annual pharmacy contractual reviews are ‘vital,’ insists PSNC chief

PSNC chief Simon Dukes reminds pharmacists unhappy with the five-year deal not to forget about annual reviews.

Researchers say the NMS will save the NHS in England £651m and give patients almost 300,000 ‘quality adjusted life years’.

Former NPA board member Mike Hewitson has called on the government to tighten its regulation of pharmaceutical wholesalers.

The Help Us Help You winter campaign returns and distribution of campaign materials has begun.

The employers behind a second pharmacy apprenticeship proposal identify themselves and set out steps to improve transparency.

The NPA says Ask Your Pharmacist Week will remind the public about the community pharmacist consultation service.

The CMA alleges Aspen agreed to pay Amilco and Tiofarma to stay out of the UK market for Addison’s Disease medicine.

The campaign will consist of TV, radio and digital advertising supported by search and partnership activity.

NPA vice-chair Andrew Lane warns the five-year community pharmacy settlement may fail to prevent the closure of pharmacies.

The PDA asks Sajid Javid for funding to allow pharmacists to have more detailed talks with patients about their medicines.

LloydsPharmacy’s parent company singles out NHS “underfunding” and falling prescription numbers as challenges.

The PSNC's Alastair Buxton said the level of community pharmacy funding for primary care networks has not been finalised.

Pharmacy2U said it has been paid £5m less in NHS fees than community pharmacies.

The Digital Minor Illness Referral Service has been renamed the NHS Community Pharmacist Consultation Service.

Aims for health information from the NHS website to be provided through voice-assisted technology.

Simon Stevens commits the NHS to tackling the society's major challenges including health.

The NHS Counter Fraud Authority says its investigation into fraud during 2019-20 will partly focus on pharmacy contractors

The NHS across the UK is expected to save around £930m on its medicine bill under a new scheme

NHS England has set out plans to curb the prescribing of a further group of ‘low priority’ items such as silk garments

Pharmacists and GPs are to be assigned to care homes in a measure Theresa May says will be "better for patients"