Community pharmacy services

Pandemic Delivery Service funding nearly doubles as eligibility expands to include NHS Test and Trace isolators

Payments for the Pandemic Delivery Service will increase from up to £20.11 per day to £37.34, while patients told to self-isolate by NHS Test and Trace will now also be eligible.…

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…

‘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 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.…

Government backs UK-wide pharmacy codeword for domestic abuse safe spaces

The ‘Ask for ANI’ scheme will enable people who are experiencing domestic abuse to speak to a trained pharmacist.…

Digital hospital-to-pharmacy referral service delayed by six further weeks

The introduction of a digital hospital-to-pharmacy referral service has been delayed by six weeks, and it will now start on 15 February 2021.…

Welsh pharmacies save over 35,000 GP appointments each week, audit finds

Around half of patients who received advice in Welsh pharmacies would otherwise have gone to their GP first, an audit by Community Pharmacy Wales has found.…

England has lowest number of community pharmacies in five years, figures show

Closures in 2019/2020 have resulted in the lowest number of community pharmacies in England since 2015/2016.…

Provision of progestogen-only pill with emergency contraception in community pharmacy improves ongoing contraception use

Community pharmacy provision of the progestogen-only pill, and the offer of rapid access to a sexual and reproductive health clinic along with emergency contraception, was associated with a 20% increase in use of effective contraception.…