Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee

Pharmacists advised to check fax numbers after hotel receives patient dispensing tokens

Pharmacists have been asked to double-check fax numbers used to send medical documents after a hotel group reported receiving dispensing tokens and requests for medication from pharmacies in a personal data breach.…

Generic shortages: what can be done?

The supply of generic medicines is vulnerable to the vicissitudes of market forces, with exchange rates fluctuating and manufacturers restricting distribution. The Department of Health needs to intervene to shield pharmacies from the impact of price spikes and ensure the resilience of the …

Puerto Rico hurricane damage could lead to drug shortages

The damage wreaked by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico in September 2017 could have serious repercussions for patients who rely on medicines and healthcare products manufactured there.…

‘Mosaic’ of public health services offered through community pharmacies in England, study finds

There is significant variation in the commissioning and delivery of public health services in community pharmacies across England, according to a study published in BMJ Open…

Pharmacy organisations in the UK: a complicated web

Pharmacy is a diverse profession and this is reflected in the wide variety of organisations that can represent the interests of pharmacists, pharmacy owners, trainees and students.…

Pharmacy organisations in the UK: a complicated web

Pharmacy is a diverse profession and this is reflected in the wide variety of organisations that can represent the interests of pharmacists, pharmacy owners, trainees and students.…

MPs to scrutinise community pharmacy plans in 2017

The Health Select Committee’s evidence session will consider the government’s plans for community pharmacy and the conclusions of the Murray review…

NHS England has a lack of understanding of community pharmacy, contractors agree

NHS England has insufficient expertise and understanding of community pharmacy services and this must be rectified because taking decisions “in ignorance of how community pharmacy props up and supports the NHS is dangerous”, local pharmaceutical committees (LPCs) agreed unanimously at th…

English Pharmacy Board meeting: 6 October 2016

On 6 October 2016, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s English Pharmacy Board met at the RPS’s London offices for its quarterly board meeting.…

PSNC releases ‘spectacular’ data on pharmacy flu vaccinations

Community pharmacists in England have administered 150,000 influenza vaccinations in just over three weeks — nearly a quarter of the number achieved in the entire 2015-2016 campaign, according to statistics released by the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee.…