NHS England to remove financial incentives for structured medication reviews in 2023/2024 Incentives to switch patients to environmentally friendly inhalers and to prescribe more patients with edoxaban will also be scrapped.…
Campaign to encourage pharmacy use ‘irresponsible and extremely unhelpful’, says negotiator NHS England's 'Help Us Help You' campaign will use film themes to encourage people to visit community pharmacies for minor illnesses.…
Health Education England to fund extra 3,000 places on pharmacist prescribing training courses Applications are open to pharmacists in all sectors and should be made directly to the institution holding the course.…
Half of pharmacists report increase in patients unable to afford prescription medicines, reveals survey The Royal Pharmaceutical Society survey of 269 pharmacists in England also revealed an increasing number of people are not collecting their prescriptions.…
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.…
Specialist mental health training pathway for pharmacists in England extended by two years There will be 70 funded places available on the training pathway for each year.…
NHS to accredit ‘greener pharmacy’ teams as it looks to develop sustainability guidance The provider chosen to develop the guidance will also be tasked with creating a programme to accredit pharmacy teams on their sustainability status.…
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.…
‘Resilience’ of community pharmacies to be assessed as NHS England tenders contract for economic review of sector The review will also look at the impact on deprived communities if pharmacies close.…
HRT prepayment certificate to cover all HRT items licensed to treat the menopause Exclusive: Anyone will be able to apply for the HRT prepayment certificate, which will be available from April 2023.…