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Pharmacies delivered over 230,000 Pharmacy First consultations in Devon last year

There was a 154 per cent increase on 2024 in patients’ use of pharmacies’ free blood pressure checks and contraceptive services.

01 May 2026

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Pharmacy hypertension referral: positive for patients and primary care

During an EMIS-based pilot scheme, a GP practice referred patients to the community pharmacy hypertension case-finding service. Pharmacist Gurvinder Najran, who led the pilot, describes its promising results.

07 Jan 2025

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CCA: Pharmacies will prevent 15k heart attacks and strokes by 2026

CCA calls on Government to fund pharmacies to manage treatment of CVD patients.

19 Apr 2023

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Service toolkit: Blood pressure checks

More pharmacies in England are getting involved in BP checks as part of the advanced service aiming to identify undiagnosed patients with hypertension.

13 Feb 2023

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Hypertension case-finding in pharmacy

Last year pharmacies in England embarked on hypertension case-finding for their patients.1 Take-up of the NHS Community Pharmacy Blood Pressure Check Service has been rapid.

15 Aug 2022

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