NHS boards (Scotland)

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.…

A third of students on experiential learning programme had no contact with patients, finds report

A third of undergraduate pharmacy students who answered a survey after taking part in an experiential learning pilot programme in Scotland said they had not had any contact with patients during their placement.…

The evolution of NHS 111

First piloted in 2011, the NHS 111 service is constantly evolving and pharmacists are being increasingly recognised for the role they can have within it. Although models across England, Scotland and Wales share the same general objectives, they have developed separately, resulting in different versi…

NHS Tayside pharmacists felt ‘professionally vulnerable’ drug dosing concerns were ignored

Pharmacists at NHS Tayside said they felt “professionally vulnerable” after changes to breast cancer drug dosing were introduced by a consultant breast cancer oncology team, a report by Health Improvement Scotland has found.…