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Sixty-five community pharmacy-led vaccination sites have this week become part of the coronavirus vaccination programme in England.

An NPA-CCA resource has been created to generate awareness of pharmacy amongst school children in Scotland.

Community pharmacists should be able to refer patients directly to other parts of the NHS, pharmacy and healthcare organisations have said.

Providing Pharmaceutical Care in Crisis Situations updates guidance first published in the spring.

CCA wants the scope to deliver the vaccine in new locations such as town halls and places of worship

Pharmacies in England dispensed a record 93 million items in March, NHS BSA data shows, making it the sector’s busiest ever month.

All eight CCA companies have a zero tolerance approach to violence in community pharmacies.

Some community pharmacies must open on Good Friday and Easter Monday, NHS England & Improvement confirmed last night.

CCA and AIM want community pharmacies to take part in an audit on the non-supply of OTC medicines to patients seeking self-care.

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

The question of whether the new settlement is a good deal or a bad one is “irrelevant,” the panel said.

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

Community pharmacy's unprecedented five-year funding deal has been met with a range of responses.

The clinical pharmacist role's expansion in PCNs could leave “a big hole” in community pharmacy, Mark Lyonette warns.

As many readers of this column will be aware, Pharmacy Voice will cease to operate in a few months’ time. At this point we are still deciding how and when. The constitution of the company does not allow for it to continue when one of the three member associations (NPA, AIMp and CCA) has given notice, as the NPA did at the end of 2016. Whether Pharmacy Voice exists as the vehicle to support, represent and deliver change on behalf of the community pharmacy sector is no longer the issue. The question is whether the sector still has an important journey to go on collectively, and if so how does it find a new mode of transport when the Pharmacy Voice vehicle is left by the roadside.

FMD Source to provide support for pharmacists as they prepare to implement Falsified Medicines Directive