Establishment Payment

Financial Framework · 2025-26

Global Sum

A monthly fixed payment consolidating several historic service payments into a single streamlined establishment payment.

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Overview

What Is the Establishment Payment?

Over the years as the pharmacy contract has changed, different service payments have been joined together into what we now call the Establishment Payment.

This is a monthly payment fixed at £2,500 per month (except for part-time essential small pharmacies) and is made up from the following original payments:

Payment Supplement

PHS Payment Core Element

Infrastructure Support Payment

Plus the base level payable previously for the professional allowance (= £575)

This reallocation of payments means there will be no more mention of the above payments on any of the monthly payment schedules or in any current documentation. The establishment payment will be scaled for Essential Small Pharmacies in accordance with the existing provisions for opening hours.

At a Glance

Key Facts

Monthly Payment

£2,500

Fixed monthly payment per contractor (full-time).

Professional Allowance Base

£575

Former professional allowance base level now folded into the Establishment Payment.

Payments Consolidated

4

Four historic payments merged into one streamlined monthly payment.