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No new funding for supervisors to support 3,000 pharmacist independent prescribing trainees

Exclusive: Health Education England has confirmed it will not provide backfill payments to support designated prescribing practitioner roles, despite a planned expansion in training places…

Published: 13 June 2022

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Community pharmacies will be unable to issue NHS fit notes under new legislation, government confirms

Following the government announcement that fit notes will be able to be issued by pharmacists from 1 July 2022, it has been clarified that this will be in a general practice or secondary care setting.…

Published: 10 June 2022

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Pharmacists to be given legal right to certify fit notes from July 2022

Government says pharmacists, along with nurses, occupational therapists and physiotherapists, will be able to legally certify statements of fitness for work, but it is not clear under what conditions these powers will be used…

Published: 9 June 2022

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Almost 15% of MPharm students leave course after first year in 2020/2021

Exclusive: General Pharmaceutical Council data have revealed 14.6% of MPharm students did not start their second year in 2020/2021.…

Published: 7 June 2022

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More than 2,000 pharmacies sign up for smoking cessation service in first two months

Since the smoking cessation service for discharged hospital patients went live in March 2022, 2,200 community pharmacies have signed up to provide it.…

Published: 31 May 2022

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Government commission on pharmacy staff wellbeing would support the profession, RPS tells MPs

Ravi Sharma, director for England at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, also proposed a policy that would ensure protected learning time for pharmacists.…

Published: 30 May 2022

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Pharmacies should be able to directly refer to mental health services, says report

The 'Next steps for integrating primary care' report states that there is "scope for efficiencies in pharmacies being able to refer onward directly".…

Published: 27 May 2022

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COVID-19 deaths of NHS staff reported to government safety body were not investigated

Exclusive: In response to a Freedom of Information request, 3 NHS trusts said 89 of their RIDDOR reports to the Health and Safety Executive were refuted.…

Published: 26 May 2022

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NHS England to trial inclusion of depression in new medicine service

David Webb, chief pharmaceutical officer for England, told the 2022 Clinical Pharmacy Congress that the pilot was "just the tip of the iceberg in terms of opportunity" for pharmacy.…

Published: 24 May 2022

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MPharm students to have bigger role in medicines supply during clinical placements

Exclusive: To attract the education and training tariff, placements "must be meaningful clinical" and not "workplace shadowing", Health Education England has said.…

Published: 23 May 2022