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‘My knowledge is vital in making decisions’ – a day in the life of a clinical systems analyst

Junior Ahazie, a senior clinical systems analyst specialising in cancer at University College London Hospitals, has found a role that combines his pharmacy training with his “geekiness for technology”.…

Sore throat testing and contraception monitoring services under development for pharmacies in England

Exclusive: The services have been added to the updated data standards for community pharmacy, which will allow pharmacy staff to digitally update GP records with advice given or medication prescribed.…

More than 75% of pharmacies can digitally check patients’ eligibility for free NHS prescriptions

The 'Real Time Exemption Checking' scheme allows pharmacies to check if patients are exempt from prescription charges.…

Is Amazon really a threat to the UK pharmacy market? (audio)

As Amazon Pharmacy gets a UK trademark, we look into how worried community pharmacies should be.…

CQC proposes law change to close online prescribing loopholes linked to patient deaths

The Care Quality Commission said its proposed legislative changes would improve its ability to regulate independent care providers that are currently “putting people’s lives at risk”.…

Summary care record views in community pharmacy increased by 30% in 2020

Exclusive: Pharmacists in England viewed patients' summary care records more than 1 million times in 2020, compared with around 800,000 times in 2019.…

Online pharmacy dispensing volume grows by 45% in 2020, fuelled by COVID-19 pandemic

Exclusive: Distance-selling pharmacies dispensed 42 million items in 2020, an increase on the 29 million items dispensed in 2019.…

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.…

Reaching for the cloud: the case for a universal digital patient record

Pharmacists have long called for read-write access to the patient record, with patient consent. In this blog, Clare Morrison, director for Scotland at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, makes the case for going one step beyond: holding patient records in a single, universal data cloud.…

Rowlands Pharmacy owner buys digital prescription service

Phoenix UK has purchased the digital prescription service Co-op Health.…