CCA Prospectus 2025
The CCA Prospectus 2025 sets a roadmap for community pharmacy becoming the home for routine primary care, freeing up 51m...
Resource category: The future of community pharmacy
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A postcode lottery: the missed opportunities for local commissioning
There is significant variation in the level of local commissioning and the patchwork of different services commissioned across the country...
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Bundling: Could contract design have unintended consequences?
The forthcoming requirement to provide a ‘bundle’ of three clinical services to receive threshold payments could lead to unintended consequences,...
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Community Pharmacy Workforce Review 2025
The NHS is unlikely to meet its own target to expand the community pharmacy workforce by over 16,000 full-time equivalent...
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Trying to save pennies is costing taxpayers pounds
A longstanding drive to save money on the medicines bill is leading to easily preventable medicine shortages and avoidable harm...
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The Future of Pharmacy First – Maximising Patient Benefit
In a report to mark the first anniversary of the service, the CCA outlines how Pharmacy First could be expanded...
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Vaccinations and inequalities
The CCA is urging NHS England to commission pharmacies to deliver more vaccinations and in so doing reverse falling uptake,...
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Almost 3.4m hours of pharmacy access lost each year between 2022 and 2024
The CCA has uncovered the damaging impact that continued underfunding has had on the sector – with over 6 million...
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Increasing Access to Diabetes Screening and Prevention Through Community Pharmacy
A CCA report is urging the NHS to commission a community pharmacy diabetes screening service which would save the NHS...
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Pharmacy First: Local Implementation
Analysis shows that patient engagement with Pharmacy First is quickly resembling a ‘patchwork quilt’ across the country with wide variance...
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Pharmacy First: Meeting Patient Need
At the two month stage CCA members had delivered 90,000+ Pharmacy First consultations. A deep-dive of the first month’s data...
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Pharmacy First – the first month
The first month of data collected from CCA members shows strong patient interest in and demand for the NHS Pharmacy...
