![]() ![]() Pharmacy bodies must “overcome differences” “We will continue to work with all pharmacy organisations – both national and local – to influence government and the NHS for the benefit of all community pharmacy owners,” Ms Morrison told C+D. It “has significantly raised the profile of the sector politically in the past year and secured an extra £745 million for community pharmacies – this is the largest investment in many years and it was the biggest investment in any primary care sector under the government’s recovery plan”, she said. She added that CPE is “the representative body for the whole of the community pharmacy sector and we consistently represent their views to government and the NHS including on the devastating funding crisis that has been imposed upon us over the last seven years”. Read more: HSCC gives scathing review of DH progress on pharmacy pledges To be a constant critic is easy – to create and promote solutions, build persuasive relationships and find a way forward is considerably more challenging,” CPE chief executive Janet Morrison said. “Dividing the sector is not an effective influencing strategy and it does a disservice to all pharmacy owners. In the same interview, Dr Hannbeck called for an “ immediate £1.1 billion cash injection” for community pharmacy and said that there was “not enough noise coming from CPE” about the critical funding shortfall facing the sector.ĬPE hit back at the criticism, saying it is “disappointed that AIMp continues to pursue division over sector unity”. She called for a “clear message” to emerge around funding cuts, which have left the sector in “a dire situation”. Read more: ‘Aiming for agreement in July’: CPE chief gives service negotiations update ![]() It is “fine to change your name” and institute reviews by consultancy firms, “but you've got to have the right people to manage, implement, think, drive, lead”, she told C+D.ĭr Hannbeck expressed doubt around whether the upcoming community pharmacy contractual framework (CPCF) will be negotiated “properly” and whether NHS England (NHSE), the Department of Health and Social Care (DH) and CPE would “do the right thing”. She questioned whether the negotiator had the “right skills” to secure a funding agreement that could rescue the sector from crisis. Meanwhile, Community Pharmacy England (CPE) said the "devil would be in the detail" and that was "not yet clear the extent to which this investment will be enough to help the sector through these pressures".ĭr Hannbeck saved her sharpest criticism for CPE, which she said needs “a fundamental change”. The sector's reaction to English community pharmacy's £645m funding injection under the primary care recovery plan was largely positive, although at the time Dr Hannbeck said that while extra funding was a "step in the right direction, more to be done" to tackle the pressures community pharmacy teams are under. She said that doctors did not start “jumping for joy” but instead confirmed that the extra funding was needed and asked whether it “will be enough”. Read more: ‘A sad day for community pharmacy’: Sector reacts to NHSE workforce planĭr Hannbeck said that the community pharmacy sector at present was “undermined” and “doesn't get the respect it deserves”.īy contrast, she pointed to the way that doctors’ organisations responded to the primary care recovery plan that promised them £240 million for IT and phone systems, funding for which “they don’t have to lift a finger”. She took aim at Community Pharmacy England (CPE), the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS), the Company Chemists’ Association (CCA) and the National Pharmacy Association (NPA) in her critique. “We need to have a respectful approach to representation rather than this unfortunate doormat approach, which has been around for some years and hasn't really achieved anything for our sector,” Dr Hannbeck said. “The sector shoots itself in the foot every time.” When the time comes to negotiate, the government can push back easily by pointing to the positive statements from the sector in support of its plans, she told C+D. She added that the “doormat” reaction from the sector to announcements like the primary care recovery plan or the workforce plan was “mind boggling”. Read more: 'Our funding is rotten': Sector needs £1.1bn now, warns AIMp chief Instead, organisations should be “more careful” and get to grips with what government plans mean before saying “Oh, lovely”, Dr Hannbeck told C+D. “As soon as the plan was published, some people were coming out to say, ‘that's a great, great thing’,” she said. Speaking to C+D earlier this month, Dr Leyla Hannbeck pointed to the reaction from sector bodies to last month's NHS workforce plan as a symptom of the problem among pharmacy organisations. ![]()
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