The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 271 No 7276 p700
22 November 2003

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PSNC hope for better funding in the future

Hope exists that there will be better funding for National Health Service pharmacy services once a new contract is agreed, says the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee.

Following the committee’s November meeting, at which it considered and rejected as inadequate a 3.1 per cent offer for the current financial year (PJ, 15 November, p665), PSNC chief executive Sue Sharpe said: “That offer is under the old contract. There will be very substantial changes to the funding arrangements under the new contract. The present system is profoundly unsatisfactory.” Mrs Sharpe made it clear that she was optimistic that any new arrangements would attract better funding for community pharmacies.

She said that the committee was developing models and arguments to achieve fair funding, but that it is not in a position to make any information on this public.

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