Local health boards (Wales)

Electronic prescription service used to dispense 100,000 items

Digital Health and Care Wales said the 100,000th medication was dispensed in Boots Old Colwyn in Conwy, North Wales.…

Welsh government announces £2.4m in decarbonisation grants

Health boards and NHS organisations in Wales have until 9 June 2022 to apply for the funding.…

A glimpse of pharmacy’s snowy white peaks

Nearly a decade after Roger Kline’s damning verdict on diversity across London NHS trusts, recent data obtained and analysed by The Pharmaceutical Journal highlight a lack of diversity across management pharmacist posts in Great Britain.…

Community pharmacist vacancy rates as high as one in five in some parts of Wales, first ever workforce survey reveals

One region in Wales had a pharmacist vacancy rate of 19%, the first community pharmacy workforce survey in the country has revealed.…

Pharmacy delivery drivers to be trained to spot loneliness in older patients

Community pharmacy drivers who deliver prescriptions to patients’ homes are to be trained to spot signs of loneliness and isolation in frail older people in a pilot being developed in Wales.…

Opioid prescribing in Wales increases by 30% in a decade

Opioid prescribing in Wales has increased by 30% in the past decade, according to figures published by the Welsh government.…

Pharmacists and doctors launch resource to support multidisciplinary teams in general practice

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society in Wales and the Royal College of General Practitioners Wales have jointly published a resource designed to help multidisciplinary teams in general practice work better together.…

Social care should be considered when deciding where pharmacies are sited, says RPS Wales

Pharmaceutical needs assessments in Wales should include an assessment of local populations’ social care requirements, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society in Wales has said.…

Test-and-treat sore throat service to be rolled out across Wales

Health boards across Wales have begun to roll out a sore throat test-and-treat (STTT) service to more community pharmacies following a pilot of the service, which began in 2018.…

Pharmacist jailed after submitting more than 1,500 false payment claims to the NHS

The co-director of a small pharmacy chain in Wales has been sentenced to 16 months’ imprisonment after submitting more than £76,000 worth of false payment claims to the NHS.…