Practice

Prescribing by pharmacist independent prescribers rose 55 per cent between 2017-18 and 2018-19.

The DHSC has been urged to introduce national service specifications for smoking cessation and EHC.

The facility will help students enact the types of patient interaction they are likely to face as qualified pharmacists.

The DHSC has ordered 400,000 extra doses of the adult flu vaccine for the 2019-20 flu season, it was announced yesterday.

"A number of pharmacies" are making incorrectly endorsed claims for medicines dispensed through the shortage protocols.

LloydsPharmacy and London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust are running mobile gastroenterology units. 

Pharmacies can expect an announcement on national roll-out of EPS 4 “in the not too distant future”, NHS Digital said.

Community pharmacists must resist the urge to compete with one another and collaborate, the Pharmacy Show heard.

Guidance to help LPCS and pharmacy contractors engage with primary care networks is being issued today.

NHSE wants as many contractors as possible signed up to the service by October 29.

The CPCS aims to reduce pressure on the primary and urgent care system, particularly hospital A&E departments and GP out-of-hours.

Pharmacists have been granted powers to dispense an “alternative strength or pharmaceutical form” of fluoxetine.

The suite of FP10 prescription forms which are used for primary care prescribing in England are being updated.

The Pharmacists’ Defence Association says a fifth of medicines have been affected by shortages in the past three months.

A sore throat test-and-treat service will be rolled out across 50 per cent of pharmacies in Wales this winter, Vaughan Gething said.

Over 1,000 pharmacies have signed up to deliver the CPCS since registration began on September 2, the pharmacy minister said.

European authorities have for the first time approved a cannabis-based medicine for use in severe childhood epilepsy.

Failure to record errors, not having enough staff and storage issues among reasons for 'not meeting' standards.

The GPhC said this would improve transparency and “drive improvement in pharmacy services.”

CPPE has launched a suicide awareness learning video to coincide with World Suicide Prevention Day.