Pharmacy sectors

‘I want to change the perception of pharmacy’ — a day in the life of a community hospital pharmacist

Hospital pharmacist Patryk Poniatowski shares a typical day working with the multidisciplinary team at a peripheral community hospital in South Wales.…

‘I write 50–60 repeat prescriptions every week’ — a day in the life of a rheumatology pharmacist

Specialist pharmacist Andrew Pothecary manages the day-to-day care of patients on disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs.…

Collaboration not competition: the NHS masterplan to keep patients out of hospital

Health challenges and inequalities have been exacerbated by COVID-19, meaning providing joined up health and social care that keeps people out of hospital is more important than ever, and is central to the government’s blueprint for the NHS in England. Pharmacy teams are already playing an integra…

How we saved £2.4m for our trust through medicines optimisation — more than twice our target

The savings made by hospital pharmacists at North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust have enabled equipment to be replaced so that more patients can be seen.…

Community pharmacies face pandemic-related costs of ‘£400m and rising’, says negotiator

The Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee wrote to chancellor Rishi Sunak ahead of the spring Budget for 2021, setting out the cost of the COVID-19 pandemic to pharmacies…

Only half of PCNs have recorded employing a pharmacist

NHS England data show that primary care networks across 22 clinical commissioning groups had not reported employing a pharmacist as of December 2020.…

Everything you need to know about the UK’s COVID-19 vaccination programme

Here is what we know so far about how the NHS plans to deliver the COVID-19 vaccine.…

Pharmacies estimated to receive one referral per month through hospital-to-pharmacy referral service

Pharmacies would receive up to £420 per year from the Discharge Medicines Service from the estimated 12 yearly referrals…

Government ‘miscommunicated’ PPE stock levels to pharmacies during first COVID-19 wave, MPs told

The Healthcare Distribution Association told the Public Accounts Committee that the centralised personal protective equipment stock for community pharmacy during the COVID-19 pandemic “faced considerable challenges”.…

NHS trusts advised to conserve propofol because of high demand from COVID-19 patients

A supply disruption alert for three presentations of the sedative propofol has been issued, with NHS trusts asked to “preserve propofol stocks for critical care sedation, induction of anaesthesia and target-controlled sedation”.…