Carolyn Wickware

Investigations Editor

Carolyn Wickware is Investigations Editor at The Pharmaceutical Journal

Pharmacy negotiators discuss patient registration with community pharmacies

The Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee has discussed a proposal to take a patient registration-based approach to the community pharmacy contractual framework.…

NHS England lowers threshold for COVID-19 vaccination site applications

Following talks with trade bodies, NHS England has reopened the application process and extended it to pharmacies able to administer up to 400 COVID-19 vaccinations per week.…

Everything you need to know about the UK’s COVID-19 vaccination programme

Here is what we know so far about how the NHS plans to deliver the COVID-19 vaccine.…

Health boards say around half of pharmacies have expressed interest in providing COVID-19 vaccines

Exclusive: Five of the seven health boards in Wales confirmed they had received expressions of interest from community pharmacies to participate in the national COVID-19 vaccination programme.…

Pharmacies estimated to receive one referral per month through hospital-to-pharmacy referral service

Pharmacies would receive up to £420 per year from the Discharge Medicines Service from the estimated 12 yearly referrals…

Prime minister vows to reimburse community pharmacy’s COVID-19 costs ‘as soon as possible’

Boris Johnson told The Pharmaceutical Journal that community pharmacies “play a vital role in helping us to fight the pandemic” and that he does not want to see any closures.…

Pharmacy negotiators in talks over plans to distribute COVID-19 treatments in primary care

Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee meeting minutes included a summary of discussions held with the Department of Health and Social Care on distribution of COVID-19 treatments in primary care.…

Government ‘miscommunicated’ PPE stock levels to pharmacies during first COVID-19 wave, MPs told

The Healthcare Distribution Association told the Public Accounts Committee that the centralised personal protective equipment stock for community pharmacy during the COVID-19 pandemic “faced considerable challenges”.…

PDA Union to represent LloydsPharmacy pharmacists

After eight years of trying to gain representation of Boots’s pharmacists, the Pharmacists’ Defence Association Union has signed its first agreement with the company.…

NHS trusts advised to conserve propofol because of high demand from COVID-19 patients

A supply disruption alert for three presentations of the sedative propofol has been issued, with NHS trusts asked to “preserve propofol stocks for critical care sedation, induction of anaesthesia and target-controlled sedation”.…