Sophie Willis

1 week ago | pharmaceutical-journal.com | Sophie Willis

Pharmacy minister Stephen Kinnock has said that the government will publish the response to its consultation on pharmacy supervision and introduce legislation later in 2025.

3 weeks ago | pharmaceutical-journal.com | Sophie Willis

The General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) has discontinued a project in which it anonymised ethnicity data for registrants involved in fitness-to-practise (FtP) cases. In council papers, published on 22 April 2025, ahead of its council meeting on 24 April 2025, the regulator said the project team had recommended the project be discontinued for reasons including the amount of time taken to redact information and additional staff resource needed.

1 month ago | pharmaceutical-journal.com | Sophie Willis

Community pharmacies exceeded targets for the pharmacy contraception and hypertension case-finding services in 2024/2025, according to data published by NHS England. Board papers, published on 27 March 2025, revealed that from April 2024 to February 2025, community pharmacies exceeded targets for blood pressure checks and oral contraception consultations by 181% and 57%, respectively.

1 month ago | pharmaceutical-journal.com | Sophie Willis

Nearly eight in ten pharmacies are not financially sustainable in the short term, according to results of an economic analysis of the pharmacy sector in England conducted by Frontier Economics and IQVIA. The NHS England-commissioned analysis, published on 28 March 2025, looked at “the full economic costs of delivering NHS pharmaceutical services,” as well as whether community pharmacy businesses are sustainable under the current funding model.

1 month ago | pharmaceutical-journal.com | Sophie Willis

With the announcement of a new contract for community pharmacy in England for 2024/2025 and 2025/2026, contractors can expect to see a 30% uplift in funding by 2026. Under the contract, pharmacies will receive more than £3bn per year in funding, with an additional £215m for Pharmacy First, the pharmacy contraception service and hypertension case-finding service.