After a short period of silence on the future for hub & spoke between different legal entities, Stephen Kinnock announced over the festive period that this would be implemented in 2025.
C&D Hub & Spoke to be enacted in 2025
The originally planned completion date of 1st Jan 2025 was postponed in October 2024 due, we understand to government workload in the first few months since the general election. Since then we have along with independent pharmacists who wish to have the choice on a level playing field of using an expert third-party hub partner, lobbied MPs and minsters to make it clear that hub & spoke model 1 is completely aligned with their vision of a healthy community pharmacy network that has the capacity to deliver significant numbers of NHS clinical services.
Stephen Kinnocks comment was in response to a written letter from Harriet Baldwin MP who had attended the MP drop-in session that HubRx along with others in the automated dispensing industry had organised. Many thanks to Sadiq Al-Hassan MP and his office staff for facilitating this session.
We look forward to a quick decision on an early completion date for the legislation, so that model 1 Hub & Spoke can be an option for the beleaguered independent community pharmacy sector.