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PSNC reaches deal with government on pharmacies' Covid costs

But the Treasury insists that pharmacies start paying back the £370m advance payments in six monthly instalments starting from October

28 Jun 2021

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A career of two halves

ICP’s Independent Pharmacist of the Year Award winner Lindsey Fairbrother on how independents are driving change.

28 Jun 2021

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Warning of myocarditis and pericarditis risk with Covid vaccines

Product information updated for Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines - insufficient evidence to justify new warning for AZ vaccine.

28 Jun 2021

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Alliance & Alloga deliver 24m vaccine doses

Medicines wholesaler Alliance Healthcare’s logistics subsidiary Alloga UK has delivered 24.6 million doses of coronavirus vaccine since December 2020, it has been announced.

25 Jun 2021

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Lloyds losses exceed £175m

LloydsPharmacy's losses increased by just under 10 per cent in the year to March 2020, its latest accounts reveal.

25 Jun 2021

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Hancock: Vaccinations to shift from GPs to pharmacy

Health secretary Matt Hancock has said he wishes to see a “big shift” in how vaccinations are carried out in England this winter.

24 Jun 2021

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Hancock refuses to update pharmacy on Covid costs

Matt Hancock said he is working on pharmacies' reimbursement of Covid costs but did not give any more details.

24 Jun 2021

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Online giants urge jab uptake among young people

Social media companies are employing a variety of tactics to persuade young people to have a Covid vaccination.

21 Jun 2021

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Pharmacy workload rises by 50% in Northern Ireland

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

18 Jun 2021

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Govt moots compulsory jabs for health workers

Government exploring whether to make Covid jab compulsory for NHS workers – but unclear whether pharmacy teams being considered. 

17 Jun 2021

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Covid jabs prevent hospitalisation from Delta strain

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

15 Jun 2021

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Confronting Covid and cancer and changing lives

Independent Pharmacy Awards winner Jackie Lewis talks about Lewis Pharmacy’s support for cancer patients in the community.

15 Jun 2021

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Fighting Covid and cancer

Independent Pharmacy Awards winner Jackie Lewis talks about Lewis Pharmacy’s support for cancer patients in the community.

14 Jun 2021

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Pharmacy and GP vaccination sites get extra £20m

Funding will allow sites to draw down additional staff as effort focusses on bringing forward second jabs.

11 Jun 2021

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Record number of Covid jabs booked in one day

A record number of Covid vaccines were booked in one day through the NHS website earlier this week. 

11 Jun 2021

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Eight more Well branches deliver Covid vaccines

Well Pharmacy has begun rolling out Covid vaccinations from another eight branches, taking the total number to 20. 

10 Jun 2021

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