P3 Featured

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

Northern Ireland’s CPhO Cathy Harrison has urged pharmacists “with any spare capacity” to assist colleagues in community pharmacies. 

The PSNC has said it is concerned that some general practice teams are referring patients to pharmacies “informally”.

The GPhC's new standards for the initial education and training of pharmacists described as a sea change for the profession.

The results of a pilot CVD service will inform future contractual discussions for the pharmacy sector, says NHS England. 

The MHRA has granted a ‘promising innovative medicine’ designation to experimental RSV drug nirsevimab. 

Pharmacists at a company providing pharmacist services to GP practices are delivering vaccines in the North West.

The Government has decided to extend state-backed clinical negligence indemnity for pharmacies providing Covid-19 jabs until June 30.

From today, the NHS is inviting people aged 70 and over to have a coronavirus vaccine in areas where the first priority groups have had their jab. 

Numark MD Jeremy Meader says he wants community pharmacies to have “fairer clinical recognition.” 

Some employers are allegedly cancelling study leave for provisionally registered pharmacists, the PDA claims. 

A new time-limited funded medicines delivery service will support highly vulnerable patients in Scotland until at least the end of March.

Community pharmacies in Wales need to be involved at scale in providing the Covid-19 vaccine, the country's pharmacy negotiator has said.

Pharmacies have been told they must read up on the NHS Discharge Medicines Service, which will become an essential service within weeks. 

Domestic abuse victims can turn to pharmacies for help as part of an initiative that launches today.  

A Boots branch, a Superdrug store and four independents have kicked off the community pharmacy arm of the coronavirus vaccination campaign.

The PDA warns it is “long overdue" pharmacy employers take a zeo-tolerance approach to violence in pharmacies.

The MHRA has approved the Moderna vaccine for Covid-19, the third vaccine against the virus to be approved for use in the UK.

Plans are underway to look at how more pharmacies can be involved in the Covid-19 vaccination programme, the PSNC has said.

“Not feasible” to introduce an alternative to the registration exam, the GPhC says as it comes under pressure to scrap the assessment.