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Over 8.5 million people were prescribed antidepressant items in 2022-23

Nearly 86 million antidepressant items were prescribed in 2022-23, according to the latest official figures.

06 Jul 2023

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Shrinking the pharmacy network in Northern Ireland?

A pharmacy contract must mean much more than getting a prescription dispensed. Access to more services must be the focus, says Terry Maguire.

06 Jul 2023

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Trouble north of the border

Community Pharmacy Scotland warned the country’s pharmacy network is in “serious financial trouble.”

05 Jul 2023

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Happy or successful? You choose

Is happiness something some people are blessed to be born with while others have the misfortune of missing out on, asks Peter Kelly.

05 Jul 2023

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Use pharmacy more, Tony Blair says in stark warning about future of NHS

A report by The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change today called for the expansion of the Pharmacy First scheme.

05 Jul 2023

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Interview: Hemant Patel - social justice crusader

Covid almost killed Hemant Patel but he recovered and is now a clinical lead at an ICS where his focus is health inequalities.

28 Jun 2023

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Normal supplies of GLP-1 receptor agonists will return in mid-2024

The warning was reported by Community Pharmacy England who said there are “very limited, intermittent supplies.”

27 Jun 2023

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DH publishes report on developing consultant pharmacists in NI

Eleven recommendations for developing the role of consultant pharmacists in Northern Ireland were made.

23 Jun 2023

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Well to stock in-vitro diagnostic tests in branches on Monday

Well Pharmacy has struck an agreement with healthcare company 2San to stock their in-vitro diagnostic test kits in 492 pharmacies.

23 Jun 2023

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Nearly one million more patients prescribed antidepressants over five years

The NHSBSA reveals 7,788,447 patients were on the drugs in 2019-20 compared with 6,839,356 in 2015-16.

22 Jun 2023

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Medicine errors would fall 40 per cent with easier data transfer

An efficient digital transfer of information about patients’ medicines between pharmacists and GPs is needed, say researchers.

20 Jun 2023

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Prescribers must be told about link of suicide risk to ciprofloxacin

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency says it will review the coroner’s recommendation.

19 Jun 2023

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Pharmacies to continue providing monkeypox vaccine in London

The decision to keep the service going in the capital beyond the end of July was taken because of the high risk of monkeypox there.

19 Jun 2023

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Focus on safety of medicines supply, McQuillan tells pharmacy lecture

The chief executive of Community Pharmacy Scotland Harry McQuillan gave the annual University College London School of Pharmacy lecture.

16 Jun 2023

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District council provides £240k loan for new pharmacy in hub

Mid Devon District Council provided the loan to give Redlands Primary Care hub in Crediton a new pharmacy.

15 Jun 2023

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Free prescriptions for 60 year-olds and over to continue

The Department of Health and Social Care said the decision to freeze the free prescription age was taken after a consultation.

15 Jun 2023

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