Carolyn Wickware

Executive Editor

Carolyn Wickware is Executive Editor at The Pharmaceutical Journal

Pharmacy-led COVID-19 vaccination sites offered part of £20m fund for extra staff

To access the ring-fenced funding, pharmacy-led vaccination sites will need to administer all vaccines delivered to them within a week.…

No decision made on when COVID-19 vaccine booster campaign will start, says minister

Nadhim Zahawi told an All-Party Parliamentary Health Group that the NHS has the infrastructure in place to provide COVID-19 boosters from September 2021.…

Consultation service refers 350,000 patients to pharmacists since launch, says NHS England

There have been 340,000 referrals from NHS 111 and 13,000 referrals from GP practices to community pharmacies since the Community Pharmacist Consultation Service began in 2019.…

Community pharmacy referral service to be rolled out to a third of GP networks in north west England by autumn 2021

The expansion of the Community Pharmacist Consultation Service means GPs will be able to refer to community pharmacies in 50 of the region's 166 primary care networks.…

Black candidates had lowest pass rate in March 2021 registration exam

The General Pharmaceutical Council has revealed that 80.51% of candidates classed as 'Black or Black British: African' passed the March 2021 registration exam, compared with 96.6% of 'White British' candidates.…

Pharmacy staff conduct 58 million informal patient consultations each year, say negotiators

The audit of nearly 6,000 pharmacies also showed that informal patient consultations could be saving up to 24 million GP appointments each year.…

Sore throat testing and contraception monitoring services under development for pharmacies in England

Exclusive: The services have been added to the updated data standards for community pharmacy, which will allow pharmacy staff to digitally update GP records with advice given or medication prescribed.…

More than 75% of pharmacies can digitally check patients’ eligibility for free NHS prescriptions

The 'Real Time Exemption Checking' scheme allows pharmacies to check if patients are exempt from prescription charges.…

Everything you need to know about the debate over supervision

The supervision debate has been an ongoing point of contention for several years, but what exactly is the debate about and why is it so controversial?…

Boots’ profits fell by more than 250% in 2020

The multiple pharmacy had to temporarily close more than 100 stores during the COVID-19 pandemic, which impacted on profits.…