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Pharmacies provided 462,000 consultations as part of the Common Ailments Service between April 2024 and March 2025.
16 Mar 2026
The Independent Pharmacy Contractors Network warned prescribing “must be fully funded”.
Numark chair Harry McQuillan said England could follow an NHS prescribing service such as Scotland’s Pharmacy First Plus.
05 Mar 2026
National Pharmacy Association chief executive Henry Gregg renewed his criticism of Labour on business rates.
04 Mar 2026
Community Pharmacy England did not provide specifics on what the Government's letter said about 2026-27 negotiations.
02 Mar 2026
The letter, signed by 3,200 National Pharmacy Association members, said pharmacists are making “agonising decisions” about cutting services.
18 Feb 2026
The government said expanding the scope of its data collection on medicines will also help mitigate shortages.
13 Feb 2026
Allied Pharmacies CEO Suhaib Abdullah reassured MPs that the branches “should all be open within four weeks" at most.
09 Feb 2026
Numark chair Harry McQuillan urged Labour to commission pharmacies “to provide extended hours cover".
A Company Chemists’ Association report said a national service in England would give over 200,000 people access to support.
05 Feb 2026
Ashley Dalton said a campaign in 2024 saw 50,000 more people receive checks in pharmacies.
02 Feb 2026
NPA chief executive Henry Gregg said Labour was treating pharmacists like “second-class citizens in our health service".
27 Jan 2026
A National Pharmacy Association survey found 86 per cent of pharmacies were unable to supply aspirin over a one-week period.
26 Jan 2026
Contractor Ashley Cohen said the measure could be “a nuclear button" but insisted pharmacists should not “subsidise the NHS drugs bill”.
23 Jan 2026
Titan CEO Tariq Muhammad said pharmacies are using their PMR systems to “auto-renominate patients in bulk”.
12 Jan 2026
The National Pharmacy Association has urged chancellor Rachel Reeves not to increase business rates for pharmacies.
