PCNs spend £387m on pharmacists through ‘Additional roles reimbursement scheme’ The spend represents more than 46% of the total money spent through the scheme between 2019/2020 and 2021/2022.…
Number of fitness-to-practise cases open for more than a year increases to 430 cases, regulator tells MP The number of cases open for more than three years rose to 77 cases in 2022/2023, up from 49 cases in 2021/2022.…
UK chief pharmaceutical officers launch advisory board to lead professional development of pharmacy The board's remit will include the development of professional pharmacy practice standards; developing a voice for pharmacy professional leadership; and contributing to the development of post-registration education and training.…
Some virtual wards created with no budget for pharmacy staffing, says CQC The Care Quality Commission has advised that a lack of resource for pharmacists in virtual wards is leading to policy, practice and governance being “overlooked”.…
Spotlight: Deprescribing research In this episode of The PJ Pod, we focus on deprescribing research in community pharmacy.…
RPS publishes standards for pharmacists working for ‘hospital at home’ scheme The eight standards have been created to set out what constitutes ‘good’ in terms of working practices, as well as audit and benchmark pharmacy services across eight core areas.…
NHS England says community pharmacists will be able to access GP records from January 2024 Access to medication, clinical investigation and observation information through GP Connect could be available to community pharmacies in early 2024.…
Asian and black pharmacists overrepresented in fitness-to-practise concerns, GPhC finds The General Pharmaceutical Council has analysed data on fitness-to-practise concerns and found that all ethnicities other than white pharmacists were overrepresented.…
Exploring the safe and effective tapering solutions in the NHSThere has been a growing consensus that the safest approach to discontinuing psychiatric medicines is through a gradual and hyperbolic tapering process. This concept is thoroughly explained in the informative article authored by Mark Horowitz and David Taylor entitled 'Case-based learning: safe with…
How the RPS has supported the advancement of pharmacist prescribing Laura Wilson, director for Scotland at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, recounts how the Society lobbied for wider use of pharmacist independent prescribers.…