Analysis

Community pharmacies need to speak 'as one' to gain greater influence within primary care, a senior NHS England official has said. 

Over 16,000 consultations for pharmacy prescribing services across Wales have taken place in the last four-and-a-half years. 

Work pressures in Northern Ireland’s community pharmacies have risen by half over the past decade, a new KPMG report indicates. 

There is a “risk of future fatalities” if pharmacies not involved in safety plans for young mental health patients at risk of overdose, a coroner says.

Wide-ranging proposals to restructure the PSNC and LPCs could be put to contractors by the autumn with a possible vote by the end of 2021. 

Both AZ and Pfizer vaccines over 90 per cent effective against hospitalisation from Delta variant, new PHE analysis reveals for the first time. 

Massive price hikes to the antidepressant saw the NHS spend over six times more on the drug in 2020-21 compared to the previous year. 

The General Pharmaceutical Council is still failing to hit its performance standards when it comes to dealing with fitness to practice concerns.

Vaccination programme remains on track to offer a first dose to all adults by the end of July.

The number of full-time pharmacist positions being filled in the PCN sector grew more than tenfold in the year to March 2021, NHS data indicates.

A report released today reveals the extent to which Covid spread through communities in England during the pandemic.

Community pharmacies in Northern Ireland are to begin repaying a £35m Covid advance from the Government from this month onwards. 

Alliance Healthcare has trained some of its staff to provide employees with mental health support.

The NHS Confederation's Health and Care Women Leaders Network found "a significant rise" in female staff reporting poor health.

Dispensing GPs prescribe in ways that are "consistent with a profit motive," a report finds. 

The first peak of the Covid pandemic last year saw a 300 per cent rise in healthcare workers suffering from mental health problems.

Eighty-eight per cent of candidates sitting the online registration assessment in March achieved a pass, the GPhC announced this morning.

Over 90 per cent of community pharmacists would be eager to take part in an annual Covid-19 booster vaccination programme similar to the flu jab service given the right funding and support, a new survey shows.

People living in socially deprived areas of Scotland are more likely to experience life-threatening complications of type 1 diabetes, according to a new study.

The Professional Standards Authority is unlikely to publish a report into the GPhC's performance "before late in the year".