Pharmacy-led COVID-19 vaccination site in a mosque is beating vaccine hesitancy, says contractor Pharmacists working with the Masters Group chain of pharmacies have begun administering vaccines from the Al-Abbas Islamic Centre in Birmingham.…
More than 700 pharmacy staff apply to join NHS COVID-19 vaccination team Exclusive: There have been 715 applications from pharmacy staff to join the NHS COVID-19 vaccination team, which supplies additional workforce to COVID-19 vaccination sites in England.…
Further 65 community pharmacy sites to start vaccinating patients against COVID-19 The new community pharmacy-led vaccination sites, 55 of which are led by independent pharmacies, will begin administering COVID-19 vaccines over the coming week.…
Six pharmacies become first in the sector to deliver COVID-19 vaccinations Administration of COVID-19 vaccinations is under way at six community pharmacy sites, the first of hundreds to come.…
Community pharmacies ‘in all parts’ of Wales to deliver COVID-19 vaccines, says first minister COVID-19 vaccine delivery through community pharmacies in Wales will begin this week.…
Trade bodies in talks with government to expand pharmacy COVID-19 vaccination programme The Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England have agreed to work with trade bodies to boost community pharmacy involvement in the COVID-19 vaccination effort.…
Contractors can ‘proactively approach’ trusts to secure staff COVID-19 vaccinations, say pharmacy negotiators An NHS England letter has confirmed that community pharmacy staff are within the category of frontline staff eligible for a coronavirus vaccination.…
Government signs up ‘hundreds’ of community pharmacies to deliver COVID-19 vaccines, says prime minister The government has signed up “hundreds” of community pharmacies to deliver the COVID-19 vaccine to patients, the prime minister has said.…
COVID-19 vaccinations will be provided in ‘local pharmacies’, Welsh health minister says People in Wales will be able to receive a COVID-19 vaccination from their “local GP practice or pharmacy”, Vaughn Gething, the Welsh health minister, has said.…
BMA recommends labelling medicines with their carbon footprint to cut emissions All medicines should be labelled to identify their carbon footprint, the British Medical Association’s GP committee has said.…