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What the single activity fee covers, why it rose to £1.52 in May 2026, how DHSC adjusts it against item volumes and how it differs from medicines margin.
PQS 2026/27 pays £64.20 to £128.40 a point over 30 points: palliative care gateway, respiratory training, urgent-supply SOPs and a Pharmacy First audit.
GPhC draft superintendent standards return to Council on 15 October 2026. What they add to the role, what owners must give their SP, how accountability shifts.
£500 to set up and £525 a month, plus £17 a consultation. The real costs are prescriber time, supervision, indemnity and IT. A business case for owners.
The 2026/27 contract adds £340m to community pharmacy. Against a decade of real-terms cuts and rising costs, here is what it fixes and what it leaves untouched.
Disposable vape ban, Tobacco and Vapes Act 2026, age checks, the £2.20 vaping duty and the coming retail licence: what a pharmacy can stock and how to sell it.
NHS funding covered £2.755bn of a £5.063bn cost in 2023/24. How the hybrid clinic model works, the CQC exemption, consultation rooms, records and staffing.
Synnovis disrupted 11,000 NHS appointments. What the DSPT already requires of a pharmacy, how to dispense with the PMR down, and the first 72 hours of a breach.
NHS contract routes now the distance-selling route has closed, GPhC premises registration, one superintendent, two responsible pharmacists, capital and systems.
The NHS contraception service covers initiation, continuation and emergency contraception at £25 and £20 a consultation, with prescribing from autumn 2026.
Private prescriptions and POM register 2 years, CD register 2 years from last entry, specials and RP log 5 years, adult records 8 years, with the rule for each.
Choose a PMR for a CBPM pharmacy: ten criteria covering batch traceability, controlled drug support and specials records, with Dataforge's honest answers.
Every regulatory date UK pharmacies must hit in 2026: GPhC fees, DSPT, ICO renewal, revalidation and submission deadlines, in one working calendar.
Your supplier's DCB0129 is not your DCB0160. What the deploying organisation must do, who can be Clinical Safety Officer, and what to ask before signing.
Clinic checks pay £10 and ABPM £50.85. How the hypertension service works, the 3 September 2026 eligibility changes, the 2026/27 caps and how to run it.
A one-off Advanced service with a March end date and an August operating window. Eligibility, the 28-day interval, the dispersal problem and delivery requirements.
PMR and website integration for UK online pharmacy: embedded clinical assessments, orders flowing into the record and the end of re-keying risk.
GPhC draft responsible pharmacist standards return to Council on 15 October 2026, before the 10 December supervision changes. What they require, and what stays.
Verification as evidence, dose history as a sequence, interval-driven reviews. Ten criteria to score any vendor against, and why to test with an eighteen-month patient.
Pharmacist £310, technician £146, premises £441 from September. Plus the June renewal changes that make a missed premises renewal, and closure, far likelier.
Four jailed over an online diazepam operation linked to 9.5m doses: the MDA and HMR offences, MHRA enforcement methods and the drift modes pharmacies must avoid.
Protect patient data in a UK pharmacy: UK GDPR duties, supplier due diligence, breach response and the six questions to put to every software vendor.
What an SSP permits, how it differs from a supply notification, the three conditions including patient agreement, endorsement, and when to decline.
The licensing scheme is not in force. What is law now, the three entry routes, the named-patient supply rule, and why you cannot advertise Botox.