Scottish remuneration rises by 3.6 per cent
Scotland's community pharmacies are to get a 3.6 per cent remuneration
increase, plus £500,000 for premises upgrades and an extra £250,000
for model schemes for pharmaceutical care.
Agreement on remuneration for 2002-03 between the Scottish Pharmaceutical
General Council and the Scottish Executive means that the standard dispensing
fee will rise from 94.6p to 94.7p with effect from 1 April 2002, and to
95.2p from 1 October. Quantity related fees and container allowances are
to stop.
The £500,000 for upgrading premises will be used at local discretion
and can be spent on private advice areas, security improvements, access
for the disabled or to support other innovations in the use of pharmacy
premises.
Scottish health minister Malcolm Chisholm said: “This settlement
will enable us to work along with the SPGC toward establishing a framework
for the modernised community pharmacy contract, rewarding the quality
of service delivered rather than the quantity of prescriptions dispensed.”
The Scottish Executive intends to have a framework for a modernised community
pharmacy contract in place by 2005.
Details of local allocations of the money for premises improvements are
listed below.
Health Board and cash allocation
Argyll and Clyde: £45,000
Ayrshire and Arran: £39,000
Borders: £10,000
Dumfries and Galloway: £14,000
Fife: £34,000
Forth Valley: £29,000
Grampian: £45,000
Greater Glasgow: £99,000
Highland: £17,000
Lanarkshire: £58,000
Lothian: £67,000
Orkney: £1,000
Shetland: £1,000
Tayside: £40,000
Western Isles: £1,000
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