No new licence applications for e-cigarettes since UK medicines regulator changed its guidance Exclusive: The Medicines and Healthcare products Agency said that while there has been "much interest from companies who wish to achieve regulatory approval", no new licence applications for e-cigarettes have been submitted.…
Community pharmacies deliver a record 4.8 million flu vaccinations during winter 2021/2022 Data show a 73% increase in the number of flu vaccinations provided by community pharmacies in the 2021/2022 flu season, compared with the previous year.…
Community pharmacy staff will continue to receive free asymptomatic COVID-19 testing The Department of Health and Social Care has confirmed that patient-facing staff in primary care will be able to continue accessing free asymptomatic COVID-19 tests in England.…
Janet Morrison: ‘Closures aren’t telling the whole story’ As negotiations over the next year of the community pharmacy contract continue, Janet Morrison, the newly appointed chief executive of the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee, gives her take on the sector’s uncertain future.…
Community pharmacy may need to ‘pause’ advanced services, warns lead negotiator Exclusive: Janet Morrison, chief executive of the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee, has said that without an uplift in funding, community pharmacies may have to pause on offering advanced services.…
More than 31,000 interventions carried out by community pharmacy under hypertension service, data show The 'NHS community pharmacy blood pressure check service', which launched in October 2021, aims to identify people aged 40 years and older with high blood pressure.…
NHS trust to trial smoking cessation referrals from maternity services to community pharmacy The maternity service team at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust will be able to identify patients, or members of their household, who smoke and refer them to a local community pharmacy for treatment.…
One in five drugs approved by EMA in 2021 lacked full environmental risk data Exclusive: Analysis of European Medicines data has revealed that 17 marketing authorisations were approved in 2021 despite being submitted with insufficient environmental risk data.…
‘Hub-and-spoke’ dispensing could save £27m over 10 years, claims government The government has estimated that there could be a 40–50% time saving if pharmacies used a hub-and-spoke dispensing model, resulting in a net saving of £27.3m.…
Online pharmacy dispensing quadruples in five years, NHS data show According to data from the NHS Business Services Authority, distance-selling pharmacies dispensed 52,930,116 items in 2021, up 301% from the 13,190,131 items dispensed in 2016.…