Many pharmacies could stop opening in the evenings and weekends in the new year after owners voted for collective action for the first time.

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Pharmacies could shut at weekends and evenings over funding row

Pharmacies could also withdraw from providing emergency contraception

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The Independent

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London

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Pharmacies to reduce opening hours and withdraw key services in funding row

Association of pharmacists says ‘a decade of underfunding’ has led to closures and an ‘untenable position’

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Pharmacies may close at weekends in first-ever industrial action

Fewer pharmacies could be open in the evenings and at weekends from the New Year after pharmacy owners voted in favour of collective action for the first time in their history.

Shropshire Star

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Shropshire

Pharmacy owners vote to reduce hours in row over funding

Pharmacy groups say their costs have been going up, including via the recent national insurance hike, but government funding has been frozen for years.

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Fewer pharmacies could be open in the evenings and at weekends from the New Year after pharmacy owners voted in favour of collective action for the first time in their history. Some could also withdraw from providing emergency contraception and stop smoking services. The National Pharmacy Association (NPA) said its members “have been forced into an untenable position by a decade of underfunding”. The trade association warned that pharmacists “do…

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Weekend and evening closures as pharmacies vote for historic action

PHARMACY owners in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have voted in favour of cutting opening hours and stopping home deliveries for the first time, in a protest over government funding.The National Pharmacy Association (NPA), which ran the ballot, is calling for an annual £1.7bn funding increase to plug the “financial hole” reports the BBC.   The NPA represents 6,500 of the UK’s community pharmacies – that’s around half of them. It says 99% of…

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Pharmacies vote to cut opening hours in funding protest - Your Harlow

Jersey Evening Post

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The National Pharmacy Association (NPA) said members do not want to cut services but have “no option” if the government does not increase funding. Some could also stop deliveries, consultations and emergency contraception if a deal cannot be reached. The amount pharmacies are paid for medicines they supply for the NHS is fixed by the government. The NPA said this has not increased for 10 years. Around 700 pharmacies have shut in England over the…

Great Yorkshire Radio

Pharmacies Could Shut At Weekends And Evenings Over Funding Row - Great Yorkshire Radio

Fewer pharmacies could be open in the evenings and at weekends from the New Year after pharmacy owners voted in favour of collective action for the first time in their history. Some could also withdraw from providing emergency contraception and stop smoking services. The National Pharmacy Association (NPA) said its members “have been forced into an untenable position by a decade of underfunding”. The trade association warned that pharmacists “do…

Pharmacies could shut at weekends and evenings over funding row

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