Patients to be referred to community pharmacy smoking cessation scheme from lung cancer checks The expansion will allow patients to be referred to the smoking cessation scheme from targeted lung health checks, which are offered to current and ex-smokers aged 55–74 years.…
Pharmacists take legal action against LloydsPharmacy over redundancy payments Pharmacists who worked in branches of Sainsbury’s have brought a claim against LloydsPharmacy regarding enhanced redundancy payments they believe they should have received.…
Summer registration assessment pass rate is 77%, GPhC figures show The pass rate for the June 2023 sitting of the registration assessment is a slight fall on that of the previous year.…
MPs back expansion of routine vaccination delivery by pharmacists The House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee has called for urgent action to tackle declining vaccination rates among children.…
Only pharmacists have signed up to postgraduate pharmacogenomics course Exclusive: The course, run by Bangor University, had 16 participants in its first year, all of whom were pharmacists.…
Government and NHS must work with pharmacy sector to improve shared patient records The House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee said work must be done to enable improved system interoperability and data sharing, which could feed into improving shared patient records.…
Government admits target to eliminate paper prescribing by 2024 will be missed The Department of Health and Social Care has said implementation of digital prescribing across the NHS will be pushed back to 2025, citing recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic as the reason for the delay.…
NHS to start routinely offering blindness drug to premature babies Treatment with ranibizumab, which is administered using a precision injection system, would begin two or three days after diagnosis of retinopathy of prematurity.…
Asthma inhaler recycling will not be renewed, manufacturer confirms A pilot scheme that led to more than 52,000 inhalers being recycled will not be renewed, manufacturer Chiesi has said.…
Avoid prescribing NSAIDs after 20 weeks of pregnancy, advises medicines regulator The regulator has advised clinicians that non-steroidal anti-inflammatories after 20 weeks of pregnancy should only be prescribed if clinically required and at the lowest dose for the shortest amount of time.…
