Serious Shortage Protocols for fluoxetine
Serious Shortage Protocols (SSP) have been issued today (3 October) for three forms and strengths of the antidepressant fluoxetine. This...
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Joint statement on medicines supply
Co-signed by the CCA, AIM, NPA, PSNC and RPS We recognise that some patients and members of the public are...
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CCA supports cross-sector pharmacy prevention event at party conferences
Four organisations representing the entire community pharmacy sector are meeting with parliamentarians and other key stakeholders at this year’s party...
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Community pharmacy and sexual and reproductive health
This week marks Sexual Health Week. As a new member of CCA staff who joined from the sexual health charity...
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CCA supports new GPhC approach to publishing inspection results
The GPhC has today (17 September) taken a new approach to publishing the inspection results of licensed pharmacies. Malcolm Harrison,...
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Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS)
Community pharmacies in England are being encouraged to register to deliver the NHS Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS) from 2...
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Blog: early-days engagement journey with Primary Care Networks (PCNs)
Primary Care Networks, or PCNs, are the current big deal within Primary Care. They’re all about localism and grouping the...
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Joint statement on response to HMRC IR35 off-payroll working rules consultation
7 June 2019 Community pharmacy sector concerned about new tax proposals The Company Chemists’ Association (CCA), the National Pharmacy Association...
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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...
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Engagement event for CCA’s representatives in Scotland
The Company Chemists’ Association is running an engagement event in Scotland on Tuesday 4 June 2019 to support and develop...
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Blog: Why contraception in England needs national commissioning approach
The walk of shame or the stride of pride? Often the conversation about access to emergency contraception is positioned in...
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Blog: how community pharmacy can support people with mental illness
From left to right: Jasmeen Islam, Deputy Chief Pharmacist; Rebecca Hellier, Clinical Pharmacist/Teacher Practitioner; Gill Heron, Clozapine Clinic Team Member;...
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RPS National Pharmacy Board elections: candidates from CCA companies
Two candidates from CCA companies are standing for re-election to the RPS’ national pharmacy boards this year: Kathleen Cowle (Scottish...
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Blog: Making the case for advancing patient safety culture
From brain surgery, childbirth and hip replacements, to collecting a prescription from a community pharmacy, as patients we expect every...
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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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How the CCA is engaging with MPs on medicines supply and other key issues
Julie Cooper MP pictured with the team at the LloydsPharmacy branch in Burnley The CCA has been engaging with MPs...
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Blog: our plans for local pharmacy engagement
There’s still a lot of uncertainty for us, mainly because the community pharmacy contractual framework negotiations are still to begin, but it’s clear that community pharmacy has an important role to play in prevention and urgent care.
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Joint statement on medicines supply
Over the past months we have been working closely with colleagues from across the pharmacy sector, the Department of Health...
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Blog: DMIRS and the “Clapham omnibus”
What would the average person “on the Clapham omnibus” do if they were experiencing conjunctivitis? For those unfamiliar with this...
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CCA leads sector to deliver HMRC workshop on possible changes to locums’ tax status
The CCA will host a seminar today (13 February) with HMRC and representatives from across community pharmacy and other sectors...
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Community pharmacies can do more to detect high blood pressure if they are better commissioned to provide such checks, audit suggests
Community pharmacies can do more to detect high blood pressure if they are better commissioned to provide such checks, a...
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MAC consultation: joint workforce group response
The Community Pharmacy Workforce Development Group, which the CCA supports, responded to the Migration Advisory Committee’s (MAC) recent call to...
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CPCS engagement
All CCA members see the Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS) as a critical step for enabling the sector to become...
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Better integration vital to boost pharmacy’s prevention role, say CCA and AIM
The Company Chemists’ Association (CCA) and the Association of Independent Multiples (AIM) have called for the national commissioning of smoking...
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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...
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FMD regulation
For the CCA’s position on this subject, please get in contact with [email protected]
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National Minimum Wage
For the CCA’s position on the minimum wage, please see our joint response with AIM and the NPA to the...
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Malcolm’s September LPC rep update
Malcolm Harrison, Chief Executive of the CCA As we continue to review and refine how and what we send out...
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CCA response to Community pharmacy drug reimbursement reforms
The CCA responded to proposals by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) which intend to reform some of...