Extra 165 places made available for independent prescriber training in first three months of 2022 The national workforce strategy also pledges to create an additional 89 preregistration training places in Scotland by 2024/2025.…
Community pharmacies offered up to £1,500 to install COVID-19 ventilation Community pharmacy contractors can claim the funding if the air ventilation system will be used to support clinical practice in "one or more consultation room locations".…
More than a third of NHS trusts have no ethnic minority pharmacists at senior levels Exclusive: Of 87 NHS trusts and health boards across Great Britain that provided latest data, 34.5% do not employ pharmacists from ethnic minority backgrounds at NHS 'Agenda for change' band 8b or above.…
Health boards given £80m to offer more pharmacy support in general practice In addition to providing greater pharmacy support, the Scottish government has announced that the funding will be used to provide increased nursing support and access to physiotherapy.…
RPS Scotland sets out vision of pharmacy in 2030 'Pharmacy 2030: a professional vision' sets out RPS Scotland's hopes for the profession, including that pharmacy technicians will "lead medicines management processes".…
Pharmacy staff recruitment into general practice should be paused, say negotiators Representatives for the pharmacy sector in Scotland are calling for “a temporary stop to the recruitment of pharmacy workforce to GP primary care support roles”.…
COVID-19 vaccinations will be provided in ‘local pharmacies’, Welsh health minister says People in Wales will be able to receive a COVID-19 vaccination from their “local GP practice or pharmacy”, Vaughn Gething, the Welsh health minister, has said.…
Drug-related deaths in Scotland rose by 6% in 2019 The number of drug-related deaths in Scotland in 2019 increased by 6% on the previous year to 1,264 deaths, according to National Records of Scotland data.…
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.…
Pharmacy staff in Scotland to receive £500 bonus in recognition of COVID-19 service NHS pharmacy services staff in Scotland will receive a bonus £500 payment in recognition of their services during the COVID-19 pandemic.…
