Community pharmacy funding frozen at ￡2.59bn for five years

摘要

Community pharmacies in England are set to receive E13bn over the next five years under a newly-agreed contract,with a planned spend of ￡2.59bn each year.This represents a freeze in the community pharmacy funding package,with a ￡2.59bn annual funding pot also agreed during negotiations in 2018.The community pharmacy framework contract,published jointly by the Department of Health and Social Care(DHSC),NHS England and the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee(PSNC),also revealed that medicines use reviews(MURs)will be phased out over the next two years,with the number of MURs community pharmacies can each carry out to be capped at 250 in 2019/2020 and 100 in 2020/2021.