CCA statement – Funding for the Foundation Training Year 2025/26
Commenting on the decision to increase the level of funding for each site employing a foundation trainee pharmacist in the...
Category: Workforce
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CCA statement – 46% (£387m) of all ARRS money spent on recruitment of pharmacists
In a parliamentary question, Sir John Hayes MP asked about the cost to the public purse of the Additional Roles...
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CCA comment: Backbench Business Committee debate on community pharmacy
On Thursday 14th September, MPs warned of “pharmacy wastelands”, amid the growing pharmacy closures. The Westminster Hall debate was arranged...
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CCA comment: The impact of increasing pharmacist roles in general practice on the community pharmacist workforce
The number of advanced pharmacist practitioner roles in general practice in England has nearly doubled in the last year, while...
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CPWDG: Reflections on the national workforce survey
The Community Pharmacy Workforce Development Group (CPWDG) has analysed the 2022 Community Pharmacy Workforce survey for England which shows a...
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CCA comment: New training launching to expand pharmacy technician role
In September, up to 840 pharmacy technicians will be able to apply for the training – NHS England announced yesterday...
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The CCA welcomes the Community Pharmacy Workforce Survey 2022
The CCA issued the following statement in response to the Community Pharmacy Workforce Survey: Malcolm Harrison, Chief Executive of the CCA...
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‘Pharmacies could save 20 million GP appointments a year.’ says Dr Nick Thayer
ILLUSTRATION BY RYAN TODD As part of the Mens Health magazines series exploring solutions to the NHS crisis – our...
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The pharmacy paradox: matching ambition and reality
The CCA’s pharmacy paradox paper featured in the Health Service Journal. Read our paradox paper below: The government’s planned £645...
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Labour’s Health Mission paper
Labour’s Health Mission paper announced the following plans to harness community pharmacy: Further expand the role of community pharmacy: Whilst...
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CCA statement reacting to the ARRS recruitment target being hit a year earlier
Yesterday (18 May), the Department of Health and Social Care announced that the Government had met its commitment to recruiting...
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NHS recruitment of pharmacists set to wipe out eight years’ worth of growth of the pharmacist workforce in England
The CCA’s workforce findings featured in The Mirror. You can access the CCA’s workforce paper here. CCA analysis shows that by 2024...