Community pharmacy

Community pharmacies face pandemic-related costs of ‘£400m and rising’, says negotiator

The Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee wrote to chancellor Rishi Sunak ahead of the spring Budget for 2021, setting out the cost of the COVID-19 pandemic to pharmacies…

Everything you need to know about the UK’s COVID-19 vaccination programme

Here is what we know so far about how the NHS plans to deliver the COVID-19 vaccine.…

Pharmacies estimated to receive one referral per month through hospital-to-pharmacy referral service

Pharmacies would receive up to £420 per year from the Discharge Medicines Service from the estimated 12 yearly referrals…

Government ‘miscommunicated’ PPE stock levels to pharmacies during first COVID-19 wave, MPs told

The Healthcare Distribution Association told the Public Accounts Committee that the centralised personal protective equipment stock for community pharmacy during the COVID-19 pandemic “faced considerable challenges”.…

‘My job is fairly easy compared with yours, isn’t it?’ — what this PJ reporter learned volunteering for the COVID-19 vaccination service

Pharmacy journalist Corrinne Burns thought she knew the profession until she signed up to support her local pharmacy’s COVID-19 vaccine effort.…

Pharmacy ‘first ports of call’ are disappearing in struggling communities

A disproportionate number of community pharmacies are closing in the most deprived areas of England, analysis by The Pharmaceutical Journal has found. Without better funding for the sector, the health inequalities exposed by the pandemic could widen even further.…

Further 65 community pharmacy sites to start vaccinating patients against COVID-19

The new community pharmacy-led vaccination sites, 55 of which are led by independent pharmacies, will begin administering COVID-19 vaccines over the coming week.…

Pharmacy contractors asked to audit patient consultations for ‘improper referrals’ from GPs and NHS 111

The Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee’s second pharmacy advice audit will take place in the week of 25 January 2021.…

Late-night pharmacy offers to vaccinate until 22:30 as it joins COVID-19 programme

Woolwich Late Night Pharmacy in Greenwich, London, would consider administering COVID-19 vaccinations until 22:30 at night, if required.…

Six pharmacies become first in the sector to deliver COVID-19 vaccinations

Administration of COVID-19 vaccinations is under way at six community pharmacy sites, the first of hundreds to come.…