{"id":557474,"date":"2023-07-07T16:39:57","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T15:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpe.org.uk\/?page_id=557474"},"modified":"2025-02-11T10:19:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T10:19:37","slug":"the-negotiating-process","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cpe.org.uk\/our-work\/negotiations\/the-negotiating-process\/","title":{"rendered":"The Negotiating Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Community Pharmacy England&#8217;s work to negotiate fair funding, as well as changes to NHS pharmacy services, with the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and NHS England is a crucial part of our role as the representative of all community pharmacies in England.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Negotiations happen via a formal negotiations process \u2013 the consultation \u2013 where a settlement (or imposition) is reached following detailed technical discussions. The timing of these negotiations is dictated by Government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In addition to, and usually ahead of, this process, macro pharmacy funding decisions are made through a complex cross-Government process which Community Pharmacy England works to influence at every stage, and throughout the year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">As part of our commitment to highlighting the transparency of our work, we&#8217;ve published the following materials to explain the negotiating process and our work to influence policymaking outside of this. You can find out below about who sits on our Negotiating Team, who influences pharmacy funding across Government, the NHS and beyond, and how we work on an ongoing basis to influence pharmacy funding decisions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Archived information is also available on the 2023 Pharmacy First negotiations, and you can <a href=\"https:\/\/cpe.org.uk\/our-work\/negotiations\/negotiation-updates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">find all our negotiations updates on this page<\/a><\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. You may also be interested in <a href=\"https:\/\/cpe.org.uk\/our-work\/updates-events\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">our Chief Executive&#8217;s Blog<\/a> which regularly covers negotiations and related matters<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Click on any of the images below to enlarge them.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cpe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Who-influences-community-pharmacy-funding-.svg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-653907 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cpe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Who-influences-community-pharmacy-funding-.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cpe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/How-does-CPE-influence-pharmacy-funding-1.svg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-653908 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cpe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/How-does-CPE-influence-pharmacy-funding-1.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cpe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/How-does-CPE-influence-pharmacy-funding-2.svg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-653909 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cpe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/How-does-CPE-influence-pharmacy-funding-2.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cpe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Negotiating-Team-apirl-2024.svg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cpe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Negotiating-Team-apirl-2024.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1587\" height=\"1122\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cpe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/NEgotiatiions-the-parties-involved-april-2024.svg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cpe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/NEgotiatiions-the-parties-involved-april-2024.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1587\" height=\"1122\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cpe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/REVISED-Typical-week.svg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-557547 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cpe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/REVISED-Typical-week.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1587\" height=\"1122\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">If you have questions about the negotiations, please send them to <a href=\"mailto:comms.team@cpe.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">comms.team@cpe.org.uk<\/a> and we&#8217;ll be happy to assist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"excerpt","protected":false},"author":2104,"featured_media":0,"parent":462834,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557474","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Negotiating Process - Community Pharmacy England<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cpe.org.uk\/our-work\/negotiations\/the-negotiating-process\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Negotiating Process - Community Pharmacy England\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Community Pharmacy England&#8217;s work to negotiate fair funding, as well as changes to NHS pharmacy services, with the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and NHS England is a crucial part of our role as the representative of all community pharmacies in England. 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