Common Trends from 2023 GPhC Inspections
Now we have started 2024, this blog highlights the common trends identified from inspections carried out in 2023.
The Challenge of 100-Hour Pharmacies
On May 25 this year, the NHS terms of service were amended, allowing 100-hour pharmacies to reduce their opening hours from 100 to 72 hours.
BREAKING: Scottish government provides £20m pharmacy ‘interim cash injection’
Does this mean that Scottish pharmacies have hit the jackpot!?! Well, of course not, this is to ‘ease pressures’ currently faced by pharmacies, and numbers can be very misleading.
Government injects £645m investment into community pharmacy
The government has just announced that it will be funding a pharmacy common ailment scheme in England as part of a huge £645 million investment for the pharmacy industry over the course of the next two years.
The Depart of Health Imposes a Reduced Pharmacy Quality Scheme
The Department of Heath and Social Care has said there will be a ‘reduced’ Pharmacy Quality Scheme for 2023-2024 than previously planned with much fewer elements to the scheme than originally anticipated.
DH allows 100-hour pharmacies to reduce opening hours
The Department of Health and Social Care has decided upon some regulatory changes which will allow 100-hour pharmacies to reduce their opening ours by more than a quarter. This decision has not been rolled out to all pharmacy contractors i.e., ones with fewer contracted hours.