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Pharmacy teams to get free flu jabs as NHS secures funding

Free jab offer extends to locums as NHS secures additional funding.

30 Sep 2021 , 1 Min Article

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Long term oral steroids increase risk of CVD

Taking steroids for long-term inflammatory diseases increases CVD risk.

29 Sep 2021 , 1 Min Article

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55 Boots branches to offer Covid booster jabs

Boots and Well to offer booster jabs from a total of 110 sites.

29 Sep 2021 , 1 Min Article

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Fewer employees made whistleblowing reports to GPhC last year

Whistleblowing reports to GPhC dropped to less than a quarter compared to previous year.

28 Sep 2021 , 1 Min Article

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Report calls for collaboration within new care structures

It calls for more scope for collaboration between pharmacy, primary care networks and ICSs.

27 Sep 2021 , 1 Min Article

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Think pharmacy first this winter, says CPNI chief

Gerard Greene has urged people to think about going to a pharmacy this autumn and winter.

24 Sep 2021 , 1 Min Article

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Pharmacies in Scotland to offer bridging contraception service

Pharmacies will be able to provide a three-month supply of desogestrel after a consultation.

24 Sep 2021 , 1 Min Article

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DHSC appoints new pharmacy minister after latest cabinet reshuffle

Maria Caulfield is a former nurse and one-time local councillor.

24 Sep 2021 , 1 Min Article

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Emergency contraception prescriptions fall sharply in England

The 90,068 prescriptions dispensed last year compares with 252,800 dispensed in 2010.

23 Sep 2021 , 1 Min Article

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GPhC: Some online prescribing pharmacists ‘out of their depth’

Some pharmacists accused of “not understanding the prescribing process they were involved in”.  

23 Sep 2021 , 1 Min Article

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Welsh government presses ahead with ePrescribing

The plans will improve the way patients and healthcare professionals access and manage medicines.

22 Sep 2021 , 1 Min Article

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Ridge review finds 10pc of all prescribed medicines unnecessary

CPhO calls for more openness and greater use of social prescribing to prevent medicines harm.

22 Sep 2021 , 2 Min Article

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RPS supports Covid jab rollout for 12 to 15-year-olds

Three million youngsters will be eligible to receive a single dose of the Pfizer jab.

20 Sep 2021 , 1 Min Article

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BGMA demands NI-only medicine rules are scrapped

Over 3,000 medicines at risk of being withdrawn from Northern Ireland.

17 Sep 2021 , 1 Min Article

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NPA: Parallel trade should be maintained in present form

Current arrangement is the best option for the UK, NPA argues.

17 Sep 2021 , 1 Min Article

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EHC refusals 'unacceptable' says RPS

'Unacceptable' that young women had negative experience in pharmacies says RPS.

17 Sep 2021 , 1 Min Article

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