Your local community pharmacy is under threat, and here's why a 🧵 1/8 The Department of Health and Social Care has consistently been reducing the funding that your local pharmacy gets over the last few years. Currently this has been reduced in excess of 25%, and is approaching 35%

It's no good planning for community pharmacists to ease GP burden if they've closed down because funding has effectively shrunk by 30 per cent. Now they've combined in direct plea to PM (the son of a pharmacist) to #saveourpharmacies National Pharmacy Association @PSNCNews mailplus.co.uk/edition/health…

Hey Premier League have you deleted your beloved Everton from the form guide? You really are the Xmas gift. #Weshallnotbemoved

Our 2 pharmacies have been here for 234 years. Like 75% of pharmacies we are currently making a loss, which is unsustainable. We urgently need an injection of cash Andrea Leadsom but instead we have received a £37m/month funding cut. This needs to be reversed urgently Chris Loder

Thursday Night, on ITV... Paul Brand reports on a possible pharmacy crisis as estimates imply that an average of eight close a week and that they are at their lowest number since 2015. Pharmacies: The New NHS Frontline? is on ITV, Thursday Night, at 8:30pm Get involved by

Have you been affected by chemist closures or a lack of medication? It's estimated on average eight pharmacies are closing every week and they're at their lowest number since 2015. Paul Brand investigates, 8:30pm on ITV1 Pharmacies: The New NHS Frontline? Get involved

Correct article attached. This describes the current situation regarding finance. It is depressing but accurate. Additional finance is needed ASAP to avoid a meltdown. Waiting for a new contract with some possibility of extra cash in the Autumn, if we are lucky, won’t work.

Pharmacy owners: vote. Vote like you want to send a strong and unambiguous message to the new government. The same one that says you’re not part of the NHS, and that you closing down is nothing to do with them.

Community pharmacy was ‘lower priority’, Hancock tells Covid inquiry buff.ly/4fDby6N

The claim that pharmacies are not patient focused is not only entirely false but also completely unprofessional. A funding war in primary care helps no one, campaign for funding for yourself by all means, but not at the expense of others.

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Boots warns Chancellor budget will cause ‘inevitable’ job losses ow.ly/CzqA50UgAB6 Boots has signed a letter to the Chancellor warning the “sheer scale of new costs” introduced by the #budget – including employer NICs and living wage – will “make job losses inevitable”

The National Pharmacy Association , Independent Pharmacies Association (IPA) , Company Chemists' Association and Community Pharmacy England join forces to warn of ‘perilous’ budget chemistanddruggist.co.uk/news/funding/n… The four pharmacy bodies have together urged the government to “shield community pharmacies from…increased costs” introduced in the October #budget

Matt Hancock’s evidence to the Covid-19 Inquiry this week sent an all too familiar shiver through the spine of everyone in community pharmacy, writes Olivier Picard. buff.ly/3Vd6xtN

High street pharmacies ‘extinct’ by 2039 at current closure rate chemistanddruggist.co.uk/news/business/… New analysis of pharmacy closure data has found that #pharmacies “will cease trading” within 15 years if nothing is done to stop #closures.

Community Pharmacy England has urged Ministers to provide immediate funding relief to prevent further pharmacy closures and avert a potential collapse of the sector. In a letter to Ministers, CEO Janet Morrison warned that without immediate action, the sector will be unable to

📔📉Reduction in Category M prices for January introduced by DHSC This is despite our concerns about unsustainable financial pressures on pharmacies as well as the unresolved contract negotiations for 2024/25. Learn more: cpe.org.uk/our-news/janua…

Over last 10 yrs the sector seen 40% cut in income, meanwhile in same 10 yr period MPs have received a 40.8% inc in salary. Incredibly our 24/25 settlement may not be known/paid until July 25!!! 16 months late. April is a cliff edge for us - NLW/NIC National Pharmacy Association

Lily Phillips was trying to get Cole Bennett to cheat on his girlfriend while with NELK at Drake’s concert.. “It’ll be off camera anyway” 😬

Thank you Dr Luke Evans MP #Pharmacy #businessrates