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Wales: Pharmacy Covid vaccinations 'must be sped up'

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.

Men almost three times more likely to be admitted to intensive care with coronavirus, a new study confirms.

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

Safety review by MHRA concludes lamotrigine and levetiracetam safer than other antiepileptics for pregnant women.

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.

Allevia 120mg tablets, which are used to relieve the symptoms of seasonal allergic rhinitis, have been switched from POM to GSL.

It would not be appropriate for provisionally registered pharmacists to head up pharmacy Covid-19 vaccination sites, the GPhC has said.

The RPS says it believes provisional registrants should be able to take the assessment remotely.

Equalities minister Kemi Badenoch has said people at risk of missing out on a Covid vaccine will get one.

The last financial quarter saw Boots UK hit with a 9.1 per cent drop in retail sales and an 11.5 per cent drop in adjusted gross profit.

Pharmacy2U lost significantly less money in the year ending March 2020 than in the previous year, its latest annual report shows.

A GPhC fitness to practise ruling has been referred to the High Court after the regulator was accused of failing to make a finding of antisemitism.

Government under intense criticism for failing to deploy England’s community pharmacy network to help deliver Covid vaccinations on a wide scale.

The GPhC is coming under pressure to delay or scrap the assessment for provisionally-registered pharmacists.

The national primary care service specification for Covid-19 vaccination has been welcomed by Community Pharmacy Wales.