Community pharmacy shouldn’t rely solely on CPCF income

Over the coming days much will be/is being written about the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework and the Independent Economic Review. Emotions are understandably high this week and as everyone has already said, the devil is in the detail.

I must admit to being puzzled by the behaviours that I’m witnessing, and energy being expended at Community Pharmacy England’s door rather than that of government. Only those in the room whilst negotiating will know what information they were dealing with and as is always the case in these situations, they (CPE) are undoubtedly in an unenviable position where nothing they could do would have been right (or certainly not enough).