Prescribing

The Welsh arm of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society has issued a pharmacy manifesto ahead of the May 6 elections.

Independent prescribing training for pharmacists will be a “game changer” for the NHS in Scotland, the sector negotiator has said. 

Data on medicines prescribed and administered in hospitals will be collected as part of research into patients' Covid care.

The PDA has warned members they are putting patients at risk if medicines they prescribe are not made known to their GP.

NSH guidance aimed at reducing prescriptions for OTC medicines saw a drop of just 4.4 per cent for simple analgesia prescriptions in its first year.

Opioid prescribing varies considerably across England and is especially marked in areas of high socio-economic deprivation, a study shows. 

The GPhC says it will take steps from 2021 onwards to support all pharmacists who are already on the register to train as independent prescribers.

The number of antidepressant drugs prescribed in England is on the rise according to new NHSBSA data.

Community pharmacy contractors in Scotland will receive a monthly fee of £2,000 for offering the new Pharmacy First Plus service, it has been revealed. 

Scripts written by doctors registered in EEA countries and dispensed in the UK now zero-rated.

Community pharmacies in Scotland have been offered a three-year funding package for the first time.

The General Pharmaceutical Council’s clampdown on rogue online pharmacies appears to be gathering pace.

A new bill set before Parliament today aims to extend prescribing powers to more health professions.

The government reveals plans to “increase the range of professions able to prescribe low-risk medicines."

Prescribing by pharmacist independent prescribers rose 55 per cent between 2017-18 and 2018-19.

European authorities have for the first time approved a cannabis-based medicine for use in severe childhood epilepsy.

NHS England approves prescribing curbs on seven more items.

Tuesday July 5 I am at a Southwark commissioners’ meeting this evening. It has been called by members of the local GP federation. They wish to learn more about our LPC’s service-provider model with a view to working for mutual benefit. There are suggestions of operating through Local Care Networks in the presentations. GP federations have been funded to assist with their set up, whereas our provider company has not. A key difference is that GPs seem to have used their funds to create various remunerated positions and are looking to make them sustainable through additional funding of commissioned services. We have, on the other hand, started a low-cost model without extensive infrastructure or office facilities, opting instead to pay for administration costs through top-slicing monies received for services. This, to me, seems to be a more efficient model than PCT-like administrations with associated costs and red tape.

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RPS wants more prescribing mentors to allow more pharmacists to qualify as prescribers