After ten months of anxious speculation, pharmacy contractors and their staff have received the first concrete details of how the UK government plans to deliver cuts to funding payable to community pharmacies in England. When David Mowat, parliamentary under secretary of state for community health and care, addressed Parliament on 20 October 2016, he told MPs that the current payment structure for community pharmacy is outdated and overly complex and so will be consolidated into one single activity fee. Establishment payments, which pharmacies are entitled to claim if they dispense more than 2,500 items a month, will be phased out by 2018.
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