NHS England

How Nuala Hampson promotes the role of pharmacists working in general practice

Working in general practice has allowed me to develop my clinical knowledge and medicines management skills, says Nuala Hampson.…

Full pharmacist access to records is the key to better patient care

Every four seconds a health or care professional in England accesses an NHS patient’s summary care record…

Pharmacies will be commissioned to provide flu vaccination next winter using trivalent adjuvanted vaccine

Community pharmacies will be commissioned to administer flu vaccination to the over-65s and other high-risk groups next winter…

17 years of fighting for pharmacy

After 17 years at the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee, chief executive Sue Sharpe will be leaving her position at the end of May 2018.…

RPS calls on NHS England to fund innovative community pharmacy work

Chair of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s English Pharmacy Board has called on NHS England to fund innovation by pharmacists.…

How do pharmacists help deliver NHS RightCare?

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society has requested examples of how pharmacists reduce unwarranted variation in patient care, to be added to a database of case studies.…

CCGs failed to declare hundreds of payments from drug companies, BMJ investigation reveals

Clinical commissioning groups in England failed to publicly declare a third of all payments accepted from pharmaceutical companies, the private sector and charities between 2015 and 2017.…

Brine says less than half the promised Pharmacy Integration Fund has been spent

Pharmacy minister Steve Brine has told MPs that less than half the money promised for the Parmacy Integration Fund in 2016–2018 has been spent, with just three months of the financial year remaining.…

NHS England consults on limiting prescriptions of OTC products

NHS England has published its promised consultation on limiting the number of over-the-counter products prescribed by the NHS…

NHS to cover expense of flu prophylaxis and treatment this winter

Community pharmacists, GPs and other prescribers in primary healthcare may now give some patients antiviral treatment for influenza at the expense of the NHS…