Europe

Community pharmacy in Wales promised 4% funding uplift conditional on staff pay rises 

The uplift will increase annual community pharmacy contractual framework funding to £157.2m.…

Oral HRT accepted for use across Scotland while availability remains limited in England

Bijuve has been been approved for use across Scotland, but it is only available in some local formularies in England, owing to backlogs caused by COVID-19.…

Cannabis-based Sativex approved for NHS use in Scotland 

The Scottish Medicines Consortium's decision to approve Sativex brings it in line with the rest of the UK.…

How we implemented a successful pharmacotherapy service across Scotland

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has also introduced pharmacist support workers and is offering training places and early years posts for the first time.…

RPS Wales asks for views on 2025 strategy

The Society has put out a set of draft goals for 2025 for consultation.…

NHS Scotland announces plan to switch patients to greener inhalers

A strategy document, published by NHS Scotland, says that improvements in the way asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease are managed could help reduce metered dose inhaler use.…

Community pharmacies carry out
3.3 million NHS Pharmacy First consultations since launch

Marking the service's second anniversary, Community Pharmacy Scotland said the number of consultations is a "massive achievement".…

NHS receives £10m to develop national drone medicine delivery service in Scotland

Drone landing stations have already been designed for NHS sites across Scotland, with a vision to connect hospitals, laboratories, GP surgeries and distribution centres.…

RPS vision for pharmacy by 2030 will ‘enhance patient care’, says MSP

Gillian Martin, convener of the Scottish parliament's Health, Social Care and Sport Committee, said that by implementing the ideas from 'Pharmacy 2030', "pharmacists will be even better utilised to enhance patient care, experience and safety".…

NHS Education for Scotland funds a further 186 independent prescriber training places

The funded places will be allocated first to pharmacists on the waiting list for training.…