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How NHS England is striving for inclusive pharmacy practice

Members of the ‘Inclusive pharmacy practice’ delivery group explain how the initiative is working to address health inequalities in England and create an inclusive environment within the pharmacy sector.…

Published: 14 April 2025

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Scottish government offers hospital pharmacists 8% pay increase over two years

The proposed pay offer to NHS Agenda for Change staff amounts to an £701m investment and is promised to remain above the consumer price index inflation rate in 2025/2026 and 2026/2027.…

Published: 10 April 2025

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Green badge scheme for pharmacies launched by RPS

The Greener Pharmacy Toolkit, commissioned by NHS England, allows pharmacies to monitor and lower their environmental impact.…

Published: 8 April 2025

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Patients in emergency departments should be supported to self-administer time-critical medicines, says royal college

Advice produced with the UK Clinical Pharmacy Association urges that emergency departments should hold self-administered time-critical medicines to the same monitoring and governance oversight standards as non self-administered medicines.…

Published: 7 April 2025

Opinion

Phasing in multi-sector placements offers another chance to review foundation training

NHS England has postponed mandatory multi-sector placements for pharmacist trainees, which allows time for rethinking the funding model and structure of the foundation training year.…

Published: 2 April 2025

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NHS England seeking supplier for foundation course content

The contract will run from 2025 when NHS England takes over responsibility for the foundation pharmacist training programme from the General Pharmaceutical Council.…

Published: 1 April 2025

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Medicines derived from UK blood plasma distributed to NHS hospitals for ‘first time in a generation’

More than 250,000 litres of plasma from UK donors have been sent to human protein product manufacturer Octapharma to produce NHS medicines for the first time since a 1998 ban.…

Published: 28 March 2025

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Pharmacy involvement absent from almost half of TB services in England, report finds

The report, authored by the Getting It Right First Time projects team at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, pointed out that pharmacy was absent in 43% of TB services.…

Published: 20 March 2025

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Only 15% of NHS trusts meet emergency department pharmacy support standards, investigation finds

Exclusive: Freedom of information requests showed that only 15 of 98 NHS trusts in England met Royal College of Emergency Medicine and UK Clinical Pharmacy Association recommendations on pharmacy staffing levels.…

Published: 19 March 2025

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The journey towards dedicated pharmacy support for all emergency departments

NHS trusts in England have started taking the first steps towards a dedicated pharmacy service for emergency departments, but there is a long way to go before each trust has the recommended support in place.…

Published: 19 March 2025