Corticosteroid shortens recovery time in COVID-19 patients treated in the community, early trial results show An interim analysis has suggested the corticosteroid budesonide shortens recovery time from COVID-19 by a median of three days, compared with usual care.…
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.…
RPS Scotland consults on Pharmacy 2030: a vision for community pharmacy over the next decade The Royal Pharmaceutical Society in Scotland has published a vision for what it hopes community pharmacy will look like at the end of the decade.…
Pharmacies could earn almost £1,000 per week through COVID-19 test distribution service A new advanced service will see pharmacies distribute lateral flow test kits to asymptomatic patients as part of NHS Test and Trace.…
Patients aged over 50 years to be offered free flu vaccine under expanded 2021–2022 programme The Scottish government has also announced that community pharmacists and other independent contractors will be eligible to receive a flu vaccine next winter.…
Labour has no plans to nationalise hospital pharmacy, says shadow pharmacy minister Exclusive: Alex Norris, the shadow pharmacy minister, said there are no plans to bring hospital pharmacies run by private companies back into NHS ownership.…
Pharmacy-led sites administer more than 1.7 million COVID-19 vaccinations, says NHS England The vaccines have been administered ahead of a reduction in supplies of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, which may mean some sites have to stand down in the coming weeks.…
