27/01/2026
📢 OUTRAGED: Pharmacies snubbed in latest business rates support package 🧪
The Government has announced new business rates relief for pubs and music venues — but community pharmacies have been left out of this support. 
👉 According to the National Pharmacy Association, this decision is “an insult” to hard-pressed pharmacists who already struggle with historic underfunding, soaring medicine costs and rising business rates. 
📍 Unlike pubs, pharmacies can’t simply raise prices — most of their work is funded by the NHS — and excluding them from relief risks pushing some to the brink of closure. 
💬 As the NPA says: essential healthcare services deserve support too. 
It’s simply outrageous that the Government should offer business rate relief to pubs but ignore pharmacies that play a vital health role on thousands of our high streets.