Blog: business rates should reflect vital role that community pharmacies play
With the well documented challenges facing general practice, community pharmacy clearly has an ever greater role to play in the...
Category: Consultation responses
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Blog: biggest game change for pharmacy?
I may not have known it at the time, but my university years definitely helped shape me into the studious-but-spirited...
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CCA media statement: welcome change to primary care needs to be matched by long-term planning for pharmacy
NHS England has announced today (31 January) that it will fund 20,000 more staff, including pharmacists, to help GP practices work together...
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NHS Long Term Plan needs ‘right funding and regulatory framework’ to translate ambition into reality
Commenting on the publication today of the NHS Long Term Plan, Malcolm Harrison, Chief Executive of the Company Chemists’ Association...
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Extra measures needed to ensure patients have access to safe supply of medicines during Brexit
The Company Chemists’ Association (CCA) today (26 October) calls on the UK Government to strengthen medicines contingency planning for Brexit,...
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Stronger recognition and bolder innovation in regulation and funding of community pharmacy is needed, says CCA
The CCA has called for stronger recognition, clearer planning and bolder innovation in how community pharmacy services are funded and...
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Falsified Medicines Directive must not disrupt the medicines supply chain post Brexit, says CCA
The introduction of new ‘patient safety features’ under the EU’s Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD), coming only weeks before Brexit, must...
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CCA calls on governments to unlock potential of pharmacy team
The CCA is calling on the Department of Health and Social Care to seize the opportunity to unlock the potential...
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CCA responds to regulator proposals around safe online pharmacy services
The CCA has today (21 August) responded to the General Pharmaceutical Council’s discussion paper on making sure patients and the...
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CCA responds to regulator’s new pharmacy inspection proposals
Pharmacy regulation needs to be proportionate and evidence-based, meet the needs of patients and the public and drive improvement, according...
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CCA welcomes emphasis on community pharmacy working with other service providers in new NICE guideline
The Company Chemists’ Association (CCA) has today (3 August) welcomed a new NICE guideline that asks local commissioners to work...
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CCA urges Treasury to exclude medical products from plastic tax
The Company Chemists’ Association (CCA) has written to HM Treasury to call for all medicine-related items to be excluded from...