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Community pharmacy expected to play ‘greater role’ in delivering vaccines under new strategy

NHS England’s vaccination strategy delegates responsibility for commissioning vaccination services from NHS England to integrated care boards by April 2025.…

Published: 14 December 2023

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Almost a third of community pharmacies providing COVID-19 jabs during autumn booster season

More than 3,500 pharmacies in England are registered to provide COVID-19 vaccinations for the 2023 autumn booster programme.…

Published: 11 December 2023

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European regulator’s committee recommends new safety measures for medicines containing pseudoephedrine

The European Medicines Agency's risk assessment committee has recommended that medicines containing pseudoephedrine should not be used in patients with severe or uncontrolled high blood pressure, or people with severe acute or chronic kidney disease or failure.…

Published: 4 December 2023

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PrEP highly effective in cutting HIV transmission but better access needed, study finds

Results of the 'PrEP Impact' trial show that PrEP reduced the chances of someone getting HIV by around 87%.…

Published: 30 November 2023

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Community pharmacy staff asked for views on provision of PrEP as part of NIHR research project

The University of Bristol is conducting research on the barriers community pharmacies must overcome if they are to provide HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis.…

Published: 3 November 2023

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Roadmap to provide PrEP via community pharmacies will be ready by ‘end of the year’, government says

Health minister Neil O’Brien said the government’s HIV action plan implementation steering group was currently “working to develop a PrEP roadmap”.…

Published: 29 September 2023

Opinion

How we treated more than 100 hepatitis C patients at pharmacist-led clinics in North Wales

Prescribing pharmacist Elizabeth Hurry explains how her team developed an accelerated care pathway to test and treat “hard to reach” patients with hepatitis C.…

Published: 13 September 2023

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Government reverts to September start date for flu and COVID-19 vaccination programmes

The vaccination programmes will now begin in September 2023, rather than October, owing to concerns over a new COVID-19 variant.…

Published: 31 August 2023

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Government launches ‘ambitious’ asymptomatic mpox transmission study

Results of the PRIME study will be used to inform the public health outbreak response to mpox, including future vaccination and testing strategies.…

Published: 25 August 2023

Opinion

For want of a jab… are vaccines out of fashion for NHS England?

This month, The Pharmaceutical Journal’s health policy columnist questions the government’s decisions to reduce the COVID-19 vaccination fee and delay the flu vaccination programme.…

Published: 25 August 2023