The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 274 No 7339 p257
5 March 2005

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Contract specifications delay

Specifications for enhanced services to be provided under the new pharmacy contract will not be published until May this year at the earliest, The Journal understands.

Speaking at the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee’s local pharmaceutical committee conference this week, chief executive Sue Sharpe said that the PSNC staff had worked “phenomenally hard” to get the contract ready. “We did not have the time or the resources to push to get the sign-off for the enhanced service specifications or funding.”

Speaking after the conference, Alastair Buxton, the PSNC’s head of NHS services, explained that the PSNC team was currently working on the regulatory aspects of the contractual framework, which were due to be laid before Parliament by 11 March.