Pharmacy-led COVID-19 vaccination sites deliver more than 3 million vaccines Two pharmacies in England — Andrews Pharmacy in Macclesfield, Cheshire, and W Cheeseman & Son in Bedfordshire — have delivered more than 30,000 COVID-19 vaccinations each.…
Community pharmacy employers restart talks on the future of supervision The Association of Independent Multiple Pharmacies, the Company Chemists' Association and the National Pharmacy Association have said they want a greater "pharmacist presence in the pharmacy".…
Pharmacists launch service to vaccinate homeless people and undocumented migrants against COVID-19 The charity NishkamSWAT vaccinated "at least 100" people against COVID-19 over three dates in April 2021.…
85% of pharmacy applicants to NHS COVID-19 vaccination team deployed to contact tracing service Exclusive: NHS Professionals said the majority of pharmacy staff who successfully applied to join the COVID-19 vaccination team have instead been deployed to work for NHS Test and Trace.…
Summary care record views in community pharmacy increased by 30% in 2020 Exclusive: Pharmacists in England viewed patients' summary care records more than 1 million times in 2020, compared with around 800,000 times in 2019.…
Welsh Conservative Party makes new community pharmacy contract election pledge The Conservative Party manifesto, published ahead of the Senedd elections on 6 May 2021, promises to expand the role of community pharmacy under a new contract.…
More than nine in ten pharmacies register for COVID-19 test distribution service The Pharmacy Collect service, which allows patients to collect rapid lateral flow test kits free of charge, has been rolled out to more than 90% of community pharmacies.…
SNP proposes NHS agency to manufacture its own generic medicines Ahead of Scotland's parliamentary elections, the Scottish National Party has pledged to set up an NHS National Pharmaceutical Agency.…
Sites offering only AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines asked to cancel bookings with pregnant women NHS England said patients who are pregnant should be directed to a vaccination site that offers the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccine.…
Online pharmacy dispensing volume grows by 45% in 2020, fuelled by COVID-19 pandemic Exclusive: Distance-selling pharmacies dispensed 42 million items in 2020, an increase on the 29 million items dispensed in 2019.…
