National pharmacy board meeting: 8 February 2023 The English, Scottish and Welsh national pharmacy boards met for their first meeting of 2023 to discuss their individual and collective plans for the year ahead.…
MPs urge health secretary to fund a ‘Pharmacy First’ service to ease wider NHS pressures In letters to health secretary Steve Barclay, MPs and members of the House of Lords called for urgent funding to stabilise the community pharmacy sector and a “fair and fit for purpose funding model”.…
Health Education England to fund extra 3,000 places on pharmacist prescribing training courses Applications are open to pharmacists in all sectors and should be made directly to the institution holding the course.…
Medicines, Ethics and Practice published digitally for the first time The Royal Pharmaceutical Society's professional guide for pharmacists is now available online and will feature dynamic updates to include up-to-date guidance.…
Integrated care system to trial cross-sector training for entry-level pharmacists The 'Start, Training, Advantage and Rotation' (STAR) initiative will offer 20 places to fledgling pharmacists, with rotation across both general practice and community pharmacy settings.…
Half of pharmacists report increase in patients unable to afford prescription medicines, reveals survey The Royal Pharmaceutical Society survey of 269 pharmacists in England also revealed an increasing number of people are not collecting their prescriptions.…
Nearly 1 billion e-prescriptions issued over past year NHS England data show that the number of e-prescriptions issued in England has almost doubled in the past five years.…
Specialist mental health training pathway for pharmacists in England extended by two years There will be 70 funded places available on the training pathway for each year.…
Nearly 400 advanced pharmacist practitioners now working in primary care networks The overall number of pharmacists working in primary care networks has increased by more than a third in a year.…
Pharmacies report three-fold increase in patients seeking emergency medicine A Welsh health board has reported a 345% increase in the number of people seeking emergency medicine in December 2022, compared with the same month in 2021.…