Community Pharmacy England Clarification on Workplans

There have been a number of queries about the timings of the CPCF negotiations. All CPE Committee Members are fully aware of the sector’s urgent need for funding and of the need to resolve negotiations as robustly and speedily as possible to secure the best outcomes for pharmacy owners. The Committee and the Negotiating Team are working hard to achieve this and we will communicate with the sector as soon as possible once the settlement is concluded.

You can read more about the negotiating process on our webpage.

Any suggestions that we have indicated that the negotiations will go on until July are not correct. This report relates to an item in a draft 2025/26 subcommittee workplan (which starts from April 2025), which related to work which goes into negotiations, analysis, communications and any necessary implementation work.

Implementation work can go on for many months, depending on what is agreed, and work to influence Government spending is ongoing.

We have not made any predictions about when the negotiations will conclude and an announcement can be made on the CPCF, but we are working very hard to both extract the maximum benefit for pharmacy owners from these negotiations, and to get news to the sector as soon as possible.

You may be interested to read about the improvements we secured in previous negotiations in our annual report.