This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.
SEARCH
Pharmacy – Lack of funding and workforce issues to blame for temporary closures, say LPCs
Pharmacy - Lack of funding and workforce issues to blame for temporary closures, say LPCs
Pharmacy news. Factors including inadequate investment and workforce shortages have contributed to a rise in temporary pharmacy closures. Local pharmaceutical committee (LPC) chiefs have told C+D.
The debate on part or full-day pharmacy closures and the causes behind them has intensified over the past few months. All culminating in the Pharmacists’ Defence Association's (PDA) decision to flag the issue in an open letter. Which was aimed at NHS and regulatory bosses last month.
Read more: No one’s taking responsibility’: PDA pens open letter on temporary closures
In response, the Company Chemists’ Association defended its membership for “working extraordinarily hard to prevent temporary closures”.
C+D has spoken with four LPC chiefs to understand what they believe is causing temporary pharmacy closures and what solutions could be implemented.
Lack of pharmacy funding
Raj Matharu, chief officer for both Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich LPC and Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham LPC, told C+D yesterday (August 10) that “poorly remunerated funding” – which fails to recognise “the need for infrastructure investment and organisational development for community pharmacy” – has triggered the rise in temporary closures.
Read more: Tesco slammed as Lancashire pharmacy branch faces potential slew of closures
“NHS England and NHS Improvement (NHSE&I) needs to come up with a clear strategy for community pharmacy, which, in the spirit of the NHS long-term plan, needs to be written in collaboration with the sector,” he added.
“The strategy will then need to be underpinned with sustainable funding,” he stated.
After that, you can connect with us on social media channels for constant updates. This includes updates on any new roles as well as any new news articles and blogs published. Furthermore, you can click here to like our Facebook page and click here to follow us on Twitter. You can also visit our website here to see all the new vacancies that we receive and here to read our other blogs!
If you are an owner of a Pharmacy and looking to recruit please click here to speak with the team. If you are a Pharmacist, Responsible Pharmacist, or Pharmacy Manager please click here where you can view all of our Pharmacy vacancies, where you can filter by location and profession.
Pharmacy - Lack of funding and workforce issues to blame for temporary closures, say LPCs