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The government said expanding the scope of its data collection on medicines will also help mitigate shortages.
13 Feb 2026
Contractor Ashley Cohen said the measure could be “a nuclear button" but insisted pharmacists should not “subsidise the NHS drugs bill”.
23 Jan 2026
National Pharmacy Association chair Olivier Picard wrote to health minister Stephen Kinnock this week.
12 Dec 2025
HubRx, which operates hub, said it will dispense over 12 million items for independents every year.
29 Oct 2025
Labour MP Sadik Al-Hassan told the NHS Counter Fraud Authority about “alleged irregularities in claims for NHS drug dispensing”.
20 Oct 2025
The Company Chemists’ Association called on Labour to explore a shared margin system across UK.
24 Sep 2025
The proposal is to give pharmacists the power to supply a different strength, formulation or quantity of a prescription medicine when it is unavailable.
18 Sep 2025
Christian Charles Logue dispensed generic POMs when a branded version was prescribed and supplied lorazepam tablets at double the prescribed strength.
26 Aug 2025
Sajid Khan Rasool did not check if there were written prescribing procedures in place and if the online service recorded clinical interventions.
15 Aug 2025
Christopher Serhat Ulus dispensed Medikinet 5mg tablets and Tranquilyn 5mg tablets against a prescription for Medikinet 5mg tablets without an SSP.
11 Aug 2025
The most dispensed drug in 2024-25 was Atorvastatin with 73 million items, according to data from the NHS Business Services Authority.
05 Jun 2025
Data points to a vast gap in prescription items between independents and multiples
13 May 2025
'We want contractors to get the best possible value for money,' Kinnock tells P3pharmacy
31 Mar 2025
CPE warns that pharmacies may need to amend dispensing processes with the introduction of OPD for NHS prescriptions in January.
03 Dec 2024
Pharmacy minister Stephen Kinnock said he does not know how many pharmacies have dispensed at a loss in each of the last three years.
23 Oct 2024
Pharmacists in England will be able to dispense up to 10 per cent more or less than the quantity prescribed for NHS prescriptions.
09 Sep 2024
