Having delivered a speech at the Avicenna conference, on Sunday, in which I talked about the need for community pharmacy to consider working to rule, over dire financial landscape, it was great to catch up with Ash Soni OBE, Avicenna's Brij Valla and Napp's Neelam Katechia.

📺 I spoke on @ITVNews about the severe pressure on pharmacies in England. Pharmacies are underfunded by 40% compared to 2015, leading to some areas, like West Berkshire & Wokingham, becoming “pharmacy deserts” after closures. The National Pharmacy Association continues to fight for fair funding #NHS

New Health and Social Care Committee Chair Layla Moran stresses the need for cross-party collaboration to tackle growing challenges in health and social care #HealthandSocialCare #LiberalDemocrats #UKparliament #NHSwaitinglists #LaylaMoran pharmacy.biz/news/layla-mor…

I’m representing the National Pharmacy Association with our Vice Chair Olivier Picard at the All-Party Pharmacy Group inaugural meeting #pharmacy #NHS

Our National Pharmacy Association Vice Chair ⁦Olivier Picard⁩ speaking to the ⁦All-Party Pharmacy Group⁩ about the challenges facing the sector but also highlighting the great opportunities for community pharmacy with the right investment to provide NHS solutions #pharmacy #NHS

Great to meet with Community Pharmacy England today at the Parliamentary drop-in. We have 21 pharmacies in Dagenham & Rainham, and they provide a fantastic service for my constituents. As the MP I will do what I can to keep their doors open. margaretmullane.co.uk/post/community…

Great to meet with Danny Chambers MP 🔸🩺 at the Community Pharmacy England drop-in event in Westminster today, talking funding crisis of the sector & the potential we offer with the right investment – but there’s no point icing a crumbling cake. Let’s fix core funding first! #PharmacyFunding #NHS

Great to meet with Roz Savage MP at the Community Pharmacy England drop-in event in Westminster today, talking funding crisis of the sector & the potential we offer with the right investment – but there’s no point icing a crumbling cake. Let’s fix core funding first! #PharmacyFunding #NHS

Great to meet with Anna Gelderd MP at the Community Pharmacy England drop-in event in Westminster today, talking funding crisis of the sector & the potential we offer with the right investment – but there’s no point icing a crumbling cake. Let’s fix core funding first! #PharmacyFunding #NHS

Great to meet with Baroness Cathy Bakewell at the Community Pharmacy England drop-in event in Westminster today, talking funding crisis of the sector & the potential we offer with the right investment – don’t put icing on crumbling cake. Let’s fix core funding first! #PharmacyFunding #NHS

Members of Community Pharmacy England’s Committee and policy team are present at today’s drop-in event. Here’s Community Pharmacy England CEO, Janet Morrison and Committee Member, Olivier Picard 👇

I was pleased to meet with Community Pharmacy England in Parliament today. Community pharmacies provide vital services to my constituents in North Durham and I will continue to champion them.

Great to meet with Amanda Pritchard today UK Parliament and talk about the amazing #pharmacyfirst scheme supporting pressures NHS England Look forward to seeing the service further developing in the future to help even more patients.

Delighted to catch up with NI Chief Pharmaceutical Officer Prof Cathy Harrison and NPA NI board member Michael Guerin in Belfast, where Michael and I raised funding pressures for NI community pharmacy, workforce shortages and our 19 September #SaveOurPharmacies day of action.

An absorbing evening National Pharmacy Association last night with so much positive energy from Paul Rees MBE Thank you nick kaye Sanjay Ganvir Sukhi Basra for sharing your visions!

Community pharmacists and their teams were not given comparable treatment to other frontline healthcare workers during the pandemic- NPA told Covid-19 Inquiry #Covid19Inquiry #Communitypharmacists #COVID19pandemic #communitypharmacies pharmacy.biz/news/community…

The NPA is working hard to ensure the heroics of community pharmacy teams during the covid pandemic are never forgotten. Here making a statement at the official Inquiry’s Module 3 hearings this week youtube.com/watch?v=2ctafc…. (50mins in)

Plenty of analysis in today’s newspapers about the Darzi review. This piece carries the views of frontline health care workers including NPA chair ⁦nick kaye⁩ : “fixing community pharmacy can help fix the wider NHS too”. inews.co.uk/news/how-starm…

Can vets treat humans??

Great to visit Raj Patel at New North Pharmacy and - with Camden&Islington LPC CEO and CPL Chair Yogi Parmar - Prameet Shah at St Peters Pharmacy, both in Islington, to see how they're expanding clinical services in face of 40% real terms funding cut pharmacies have suffered in last 10 years.