NHS England calls on pharmacies in ‘priority locations’ to open COVID-19 vaccination sites Community pharmacies in more than 100 parts of the country can register their interest as other vaccination sites return to business-as-usual activities.…
Pharmacy regulator may only be reviewed fully every five years A proposal for “a more targeted approach” to performance reviews means that reviews of the General Pharmaceutical Council could move from once per year to once every five years.…
Coroner’s report recommends tightening regulation around forms of codeine and morphine A report calls for opioids that are prescription-only medicines to be regulated as schedule 3 drugs, to make them harder to access inappropriately.…
Health boards commission nearly 20 pharmacies to provide COVID-19 vaccinations Exclusive: The expansion of the COVID-19 vaccination service means that 2.4% of all 715 pharmacies in Wales are now providing the service.…
Community pharmacists administer almost 3 million flu jabs in 2020–2021 There have been at least 2.6 million vaccines administered by community pharmacy in England during the 2020–2021 flu vaccination programme.…
Opening of pharmacy-led COVID-19 vaccination sites delayed by vaccine supply issues NHS England said that most of the next two waves of pharmacy-run vaccination sites will start work in late April or early May 2021.…
Pharmacies could earn almost £1,000 per week through COVID-19 test distribution service A new advanced service will see pharmacies distribute lateral flow test kits to asymptomatic patients as part of NHS Test and Trace.…
Patients aged over 50 years to be offered free flu vaccine under expanded 2021–2022 programme The Scottish government has also announced that community pharmacists and other independent contractors will be eligible to receive a flu vaccine next winter.…
Scottish government offers 4% pay rise to NHS staff If accepted, the pay increase will be backdated to 1 December 2020 to recognise the pressure put on staff by the COVID-19 pandemic.…
Labour has no plans to nationalise hospital pharmacy, says shadow pharmacy minister Exclusive: Alex Norris, the shadow pharmacy minister, said there are no plans to bring hospital pharmacies run by private companies back into NHS ownership.…
