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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.…

No pharmacists apply for fully funded place on genomic medicine course

Exclusive: There have been no applications for funded places on the genomic medicine postgraduate course at Swansea University since the funding was allocated in 2019.…

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.…

Welsh health minister says pharmacy degree apprenticeships are ‘worth looking into’

Exclusive: Despite widespread support from members of parliament, the Welsh government has confirmed there are no plans to pursue pharmacist apprenticeships in Wales.…

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.…