PSNC chief executive Simon Dukes will leave his post at the end of September after just over three and-a-half years in the role.

The Wright review steering group will hold a series of online focus groups and workshops this month and in August.

The PSNC and other health bodies want the Health and Care Bill to ensure professions outside of general practice are heard. 

PSNC chief Simon Dukes has urged contractors to "use their best judgement" when putting together their Covid costs evidence.   

Around a fifth of community pharmacies have dealt with over 13,000 DMS referrals in the first three months of the service, NHSE reveals.

The PSNC's call on the Government to write off the £370m advance "was never going to be agreed" by the Treasury, says chief exec Simon Dukes. 

Service specifications to be published in early July, with a view to confirming those who would like to opt in in mid to late July

Pharmacy bodies have reacted largely positively to the improved terms offered for the reimbursement of Covid costs for pharmacies in England 

But the Treasury insists that pharmacies start paying back the £370m advance payments in six monthly instalments starting from October

Prescriptions sent via EPS account for more than 95 per cent of total items dispensed in England.

General practice may not have literally shut its doors during the pandemic but access has been a massive problem. Why try to rewrite history?