Sites offering only AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines asked to cancel bookings with pregnant women NHS England said patients who are pregnant should be directed to a vaccination site that offers the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccine.…
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.…
NHS England calls on pharmacies in ‘priority locations’ to open COVID-19 vaccination sites Community pharmacies in more than 100 parts of the country can register their interest as other vaccination sites return to business-as-usual activities.…
COVID-19 vaccines have prevented more than 10,000 deaths in England, PHE says Public Health England has calculated that 10,400 deaths have been prevented in England by the COVID-19 vaccination programme.…
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.…
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.…
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.…
