Local health boards (Wales)

Local versus national: minor ailments services across Great Britain

Different parts of Great Britain have taken different approaches to offering minor ailment services. A national service provides consistency, whereas local schemes can adapt to local needs. …

New public health bill for Wales revisits pharmaceutical needs assessments

A new public health bill for Wales — which, if passed, will require health boards to produce pharmaceutical needs assessments (PNAs) — was laid before the Welsh Assembly on 7 November 2016.…

Welsh Labour pledge to create £80m central fund for high cost drugs

Welsh Labour has pledged to create an £80m central fund to pay for high cost medicines if they retain control of the National Assembly for Wales following the election on 5 May 2016.…

Pharmacists in Wales take on pharmaceutical care of 23,000 patients in ‘pioneering’ primary care service

Pharmacists and pharmacy technicians are forming part of a multidisciplinary primary healthcare service in Prestatyn, North Wales, set up and run directly by the local health board in response to a GP recruitment crisis.…

RPS calls on next Welsh government to reconsider public health bill

The proposed public health bill in Wales, which would have required health boards to consider the pharmaceutical needs of the local population, has been rejected.…

Welsh government puts up £750,000 to support pharmacy minor ailments service

A £750,000 technology investment that will enable pharmacists across Wales to provide a minor ailments service to patients has been announced by deputy health minister Vaughan Gething.…

Welsh chief pharmacists say NHS pharmacists should ‘engage with’ RPS Faculty

All pharmacists employed by health boards and trusts in Wales should engage with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Faculty processes, according to the All Wales Chief Pharmacist Committee.…

How pharmacy contracts are granted set to change in Wales

Regulations that govern the granting of new NHS pharmacy contracts in Wales look set to be amended by a new Bill being debated in the Welsh Parliament.…

Health board says all its pharmacists should become RPS Faculty members

Welsh health board says Faculty membership will show its pharmacists “are working to the highest level”.…

‘Buy your own drugs’: an unreasonable request or sensible policy?

One Welsh health board made national headlines on 18 March 2015 when, in the words of the Daily Mail, it told patients to “Buy your own drugs”. This was, perhaps, a little misleading.…