Carolyn Wickware

Executive Editor

Carolyn Wickware is Executive Editor at The Pharmaceutical Journal

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.…

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.…