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Health boards commission nearly 20 pharmacies to provide COVID-19 vaccinations

Exclusive: The expansion of the COVID-19 vaccination service means that 2.4% of all 715 pharmacies in Wales are now providing the service.…

RPS Wales welcomes £100m investment in pandemic recovery

A recovery plan, published by the Welsh government, states that “developing the role of our community pharmacy in services, especially clinical services, will build on the developments we saw during the pandemic”.…

Some aseptic pharmacy services to be centralised, Welsh government says

Exclusive: Three centralised facilities have received £67m in initial funding as part of the government's 'Transforming Access to Medicines' plan.…

COVID-19 £500 bonus payments for pharmacists

The Welsh government has announced a one-off payment for health and social care workers in recognition of their contribution during the COVID-19 pandemic.…

Community pharmacies given extra £3.5m to cover COVID-19 costs

The funding will be in addition to £5.6m that was promised to the sector in Wales in December 2020.…

Pharmacy regulator to publish ‘diversity data’ around fitness-to-practise cases

The General Pharmaceutical Council has said it will publish diversity data related to fitness-to-practise cases in order to understand and address potential discrimination.…

Welsh Election 2021: creating a platform for pharmacy

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society in Wales is doing “all it can” to amplify the voice of pharmacy to influence political party manifestos in the run up to the 2021 elections.…

RPS Wales joins other bodies in calling for government action on health inequalities

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society in Wales is among health organisations who have called on the Welsh government to reduce health inequalities.…

Health boards say around half of pharmacies have expressed interest in providing COVID-19 vaccines

Exclusive: Five of the seven health boards in Wales confirmed they had received expressions of interest from community pharmacies to participate in the national COVID-19 vaccination programme.…

Lack of community pharmacies commissioned for COVID-19 vaccinations is ‘a ticking time bomb’, say sector leaders

Community Pharmacy Wales has said that health boards must urgently start commissioning more community pharmacies to vaccinate patients against COVID-19.…