Community pharmacy services

Nearly 1 billion e-prescriptions issued over past year

NHS England data show that the number of e-prescriptions issued in England has almost doubled in the past five years.…

Chlamydia: screening, diagnosis and management

Chlamydia is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the UK. Learn the signs and symptoms of chlamydia, who is eligible for screening and how to treat it.…

Pharmacist honoured for COVID-19 vaccination work

Viral Doshi received the British Citizen Award for his work setting up the Navnat Centre in Hayes, west London, as a COVID-19 vaccination hub.…

Buprenorphine initiation in community pharmacy ‘feasible’ for opioid withdrawal, concludes study

Community pharmacies can safely initiate patients on buprenorphine for opioid dependence and are likely to keep them engaged with treatment for longer, according to results of a small study.…

NHS loses £16m in COVID-19 loans after ‘significant number’ of pharmacy closures

An urgent uplift to advance payments was meant to "support pharmacies with their cashflow pressures", but hundreds have closed.…

Pharmacies report three-fold increase in patients seeking emergency medicine 

A Welsh health board has reported a 345% increase in the number of people seeking emergency medicine in December 2022, compared with the same month in 2021.…

Pharmacies in England’s most deprived areas provide 50% more NHS services to their local populations

Exclusive: "Worrying" new figures show funding cuts are putting much-needed pharmacy services at risk in England's most deprived areas.…

Transitional payments worth £2.5m per month for community pharmacy to end from February 2023

The Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee said in a statement that the government had decided to end transitional payments “based on the latest monitoring and analysis of funding delivery”.…

Perimenopause: symptoms and management

As many as 90% of women with perimenopausal symptoms will seek help. Here, we outline what pharmacists need to know about these symptoms and the available treatments.…

Pharmacies save 1,700 GP appointments through NHS-funded walk-in consultation service

Paul McGorry, chief executive of Humber Local Pharmaceutical Committee, said that 60% of patients who used the 'Walk-in consultation service' in Humber and North Yorkshire would otherwise have gone to a GP.…