NHS boards (Scotland)

NHS Education for Scotland creates three roles to boost advanced pharmacist practitioners

The programme leads will be tasked with helping health boards plan and implement advanced practice pilots, while working to increase the number of designated prescribing practitioners across community pharmacy.…

NHS staff offered 7.5% average pay rise in Scotland

The Scottish government's third pay offer since June 2022 will be put to members of the union Unite in a "consultative ballot".…

Oral HRT accepted for use across Scotland while availability remains limited in England

Bijuve has been been approved for use across Scotland, but it is only available in some local formularies in England, owing to backlogs caused by COVID-19.…

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.…

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.…

Scottish health boards commission small numbers of flu vaccinations from community pharmacy

Community pharmacies in Scotland have been commissioned to provide small numbers of flu vaccinations in the first season they are providing them to the public on the NHS.…

Large parts of Scotland will not commission flu vaccinations from community pharmacies

Several health boards in Scotland will not use community pharmacies to deliver flu vaccinations this winter, despite being able to do so for the first time.…

Scottish health board says it has become first region in the world to ‘effectively eliminate’ hepatitis C

A Scottish health board has claimed to be the first region in the world to effectively eliminate hepatitis C.…

Post-foundation hospital pharmacists need mentors, survey finds

Mentoring is “crucial” to the development of advanced practice pharmacists, according to the results of a survey of hospital pharmacists in Scotland.…

NHS Scotland to provide £100,000-per-year cystic fibrosis drug

A five-year deal to supply NHS Scotland with cystic fibrosis drugs Orkambi and Symkevi has been secured after discussions between the manufacturer, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, and the Scottish government.…