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Community Pharmacy England will be hosting a webinar on the regulatory provisions and issues around pharmacy core and supplementary opening hours. The session will explain the current requirements, notifications and applications, market entry issues around opening hours, explain how ICBs [...]
Published on: 3rd July 2026 | Updated on: 3rd July 2026
Today, the new application route for rearranging core opening hours came into force. This follows on from the laying of the relevant regulations in Parliament on 2 June, see our announcement. The new application route The new application route – [...]
Published on: 23rd June 2025 | Updated on: 23rd June 2025
Important regulatory changes to the community pharmacy sector – including those on distance selling premises (DSP) pharmacies and core opening hours – have been laid before Parliament today (2 June 2025) and will come into force in 21 days, on [...]
Published on: 2nd June 2025 | Updated on: 2nd June 2025
On Monday 31st March 2025, the details of the contractual settlement for 2025/26 were announced, which included changes to regulations around core opening hours. This news story highlights key information within the briefing that we released after the announcement of the [...]
Published on: 4th April 2025 | Updated on: 6th April 2025
Pharmacy owners who want to change their supplementary opening hours are required by their terms of service to notify the relevant ICB. If a pharmacy owner wants to: increase supplementary opening hours at the pharmacy, notification of the change must be given to [...]
Published on: 6th June 2024 | Updated on: 6th June 2024
Pharmacy owners who want to change their core contractual hours (core opening hours) must apply to the ICB. Pharmacy owners have no right to change core opening hours, but must apply for any changes. This is not a notification procedure. [...]
Published on: 6th June 2024 | Updated on: 27th April 2026
Pharmacy opening hours are part of pharmacies’ Terms of Service for providing NHS pharmaceutical services. Most pharmacies must open for 40 core contractual hours (this includes Distance Selling Premises (DSP) pharmacies). Some pharmacies must open between 72-100 core contractual hours [...]
Published on: 11th July 2013 | Updated on: 9th October 2026
The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical and Local Pharmaceutical Services) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2026 were laid on Thursday 3rd September as amendments to The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical and Local Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 2013 (the PLPS Regulations). As part of the [...]
Published on: 8th October 2026 | Updated on: 8th October 2026
Following the launch of the Meningococcal B (MenB) Vaccination Service this week, Community Pharmacy England has been working with NHS England to monitor its early progress and address teething issues. NHS England has already taken action to support pharmacies in response to the concerns we raised around the initial ordering and [...]
Published on: 24th July 2026 | Updated on: 31st July 2026
Community Pharmacy England has been working urgently with NHS England to improve Meningococcal B (MenB) vaccine allocation and ordering ahead of the service launch next week. Further to our earlier news story regarding vaccine allocation and ordering, we have been [...]
Published on: 15th July 2026 | Updated on: 31st July 2026
As announced previously the Government and connectivity providers have been advising community pharmacy owners and others to take action to prepare for the upcoming national switch-off of the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), which is due to be fully decommissioned [...]
Published on: 15th July 2026 | Updated on: 15th July 2026
iNews, Daily Mail Community pharmacies across England are facing severe financial losses, with patients increasingly feeling the impact through delays to medicines and reduced access to care. New survey findings from Community Pharmacy England show that daily medicines shortages and [...]
Published on: 14th July 2026 | Updated on: 14th July 2026
Community pharmacies across England are still facing severe financial losses, with patients increasingly feeling the impact through delays to medicines and reduced access to care, this year’s Pharmacy Pressures Survey has shown. The owners of more than 2,900 pharmacies, along [...]
Published on: 14th July 2026 | Updated on: 17th July 2026
This page contains the answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) on the Meningococcal B (MenB) Vaccination Service. Please also look at NHS England’s FAQs within their Vaccine Supply and Ordering Guidance for Providers (Futures platform – login required) document. Click on a [...]
Published on: 3rd July 2026 | Updated on: 31st July 2026
This page contains information about the Meningococcal B (MenB) Vaccination Service, which commenced on 20th July 2026. The service has been commissioned as a one-off Advanced service for administering a MenB vaccine to protect all Year 13 pupils and those [...]
Published on: 19th June 2026 | Updated on: 16th October 2026
