DHSC

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PSNC

We’ve been talking to the wrong people in Government, says PSNC chief

PSNC needs more funding for its new influencing strategy, says chief executive

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Business environment

DH has not ‘considered it necessary’ to limit medicine prices since law change

SoS has yet to use price control powers granted in 2018, despite concerns around present market

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Financial Management & Funding

Independent pharmacy is at risk of extinction, Tory peer warns

Lord Grade warns a contract that has not kept pace with inflation is imperilling small pharmacies

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RPS

RPS director for England to leave in October

Sharma will become head of pharmacy at Luton and Dunstable University Hospital.

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Government has 'no plans' to raise prescription charge this year

The charge will remain fixed at £9.35 per item, the first time it has not gone up year-on-year.

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Financial Management & Funding

'Deep frustration' as DH review fails to provide pharmacy funding uplift

DHSC and NHS England stand firm on question of global sum increase, says PSNC.

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Vaccinations

Pharmacies delivered 185,000 Covid boosters in England on Monday

A total of 418,000 boosters were delivered across the country, according to the DHSC.

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NPA

All change in the ministerial team in England

NPA chief Mark Lyonette on recent changes to the DHSC team.

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Public health

OHID has mission to level up health disparities

Office for Health Improvement and Disparities is one of two bodies taking over roles of Public Health England

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Policy

Charity attacks plans to raise free prescription age to 66

The Government plans to increase the age for prescription exemptions to 66 years.

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