Community pharmacy

Pharmacy negotiators ‘disappointed’ as fee for autumn 2022 COVID-19 boosters is cut

Alastair Buxton, director of NHS services at the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee, said the negotiator was "disappointed that NHS England and Improvement has not recognised the increasing costs that contractors are experiencing".…

Community pharmacies in England carry out more than 110,000 blood pressure checks in six months

Community pharmacies also provided ambulatory blood pressure monitoring to nearly 5,000 patients.…

Pharmacy has an important part to play in health promotion

Health promotion is an integral part of pharmacy education and practice, and the COVID-19 pandemic has emphasised the vital role of pharmacists as part of a multidisciplinary team supporting the health of the nation. The pandemic has also highlighted the need to expand health promotion even further …

First pharmacogenomic testing service to be launched by pharmacy multiple later in 2022

Exclusive: If the Day Lewis service proves to be successful and cost effective, it could be commissioned more widely by the NHS.…

Wilson’s disease: diagnosis and management

An overview of the causes, signs, symptoms and management of Wilson’s disease, an autosomal recessive genetic disorder characterised by the accumulation of copper in various body tissues.…

How one local community COVID-19 service treated up to 200 vulnerable patients each day

At the height of the Omicron wave, this local medicines delivery unit received an unexpectedly high number of referrals for patients at risk from COVID-19. Here is how they coped.…

Epilepsy: management

An overview of commonly used anti-seizure medicines as well as guidance on their initiation, adding on and withdrawal.…

Revenue from LloydsPharmacy’s online offering increases by more than 700% in one year  

LloydsDirect, the online pharmacy, saw a 731% growth in revenue in the 2020/2021 fiscal year.…

LloydsPharmacy reports 11 percentage point increase in gender pay gap for 2021/2022

The median hourly pay gap at LloydsPharmacy was found to be 14.7% in favour of men, with women's mean hourly pay 32.1% lower than men's.…

Janet Morrison: ‘Closures aren’t telling the whole story’

As negotiations over the next year of the community pharmacy contract continue, Janet Morrison, the newly appointed chief executive of the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee, gives her take on the sector’s uncertain future.…