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Pharmacy First

The Pharmacy First scheme provides professional health care advice, treatments, and medicines for common illnesses from your local pharmacy, without the need for an appointment.

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Pharmacy Magazine Podcast – Talking Pharmacy, November 24 (PodBean version)

Topics covered this week: health select committee inquiry into community pharmacy, co-codamol shortages and the complexities of the National Living Wage rise. Plus the big story that is dominating the headlines – Pharmacy First in England. How did it land with the sector?

24 Nov 2023

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Pharmacy Magazine Podcast – Talking Pharmacy, November 24

Topics covered this week: health select committee inquiry into community pharmacy, co-codamol shortages and the complexities of the National Living Wage rise. Plus the big story that is dominating the headlines – Pharmacy First in England. How did it land with the sector?

24 Nov 2023

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Updated service specs published for contraception and hypertension services

Full details on the NHSE and CPE websites. Support package for contractors to be announced soon.

23 Nov 2023

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System suppliers racing to be ready for Pharmacy First launch

Pharmacists will be able to send data to the MYS portal and GP records and see more parts of the GP record.

21 Nov 2023

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Doctors complain Pharmacy First will create ‘significant’ funding disparity

Pharmacies will get 'more than double' the per-consultation rate GPs receive, claims DAUK

21 Nov 2023

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CPE confirms £645m is new money but questions remain over IT

Company Chemists’ Association chief executive Malcolm Harrison said the launch of Pharmacy First was “a huge vote of confidence in the sector."

16 Nov 2023

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Pharmacy First service will launch in January

Expanded Pharmacy Contraception and Hypertension Case-Finding Services will also start on December 1.

16 Nov 2023

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Portsmouth Council hosts community pharmacy summit tomorrow

Leading figures from pharmacy and wider NHS will discuss the challenges and opportunities for pharmacy teams in the city.

14 Nov 2023

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Announcement on primary care recovery plan funding expected soon

Community Pharmacy England's Morrison says negotiations on the £645m investment have concluded.

05 Nov 2023

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Williamson: It’s reassuring independents can take on more responsibility

Former cabinet minister Gavin Williamson told a local newspaper that independents are ready to take on more responsibility with prescriptions.

18 Sep 2023

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Use pharmacy more, Tony Blair says in stark warning about future of NHS

A report by The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change today called for the expansion of the Pharmacy First scheme.

05 Jul 2023

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Surfing is better than swimming – or sinking

The new funding for pharmacy in England is a positive turn in the tide – but it is important now to begin thinking about the transitional steps everyone needs to take to realise their share of the £645m, says Michael Lennox, chief officer of Somerset LPC.

18 Jun 2023

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Government’s £645m pharmacy services investment not enough, AIMp tells Treasury

Pharmacy First 'financially low viability' without additional core funding, officials told.

14 Jun 2023

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Pharmacies could deliver 30 million Pharmacy First appointments a year

Based on the rollout of Pharmacy First in Scotland, it is likely 15 – 20 million consultations will be provided in the first year alone, says the CCA.

13 Jun 2023

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Multiples call for supervision changes to meet clinical ambitions for pharmacy

Pharmacists' rising dispensing workload hampers clinical ambitions, says CCA

08 Jun 2023

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Minister: Pharmacy closures not a sign of Government failure

How patients use their pharmacies will be 'the real measure' says Lord Markham

19 May 2023

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