Pharmacy

Pharmacy First is a step too far unless staffing issues are addressed

I have never felt the need to express my frustrations with our profession so strongly. Over the past ten years or so, we have just had more and more dumped on us. We are dispensing more prescriptions than ever and yet staff have been reduced to dangerously low levels everywhere owing to the increasi…

Training pathway for clinical pharmacy academics should be in place by 2030

NHS England-commissioned report made short-, medium- and long-term recommendations to “support the embedding of research at all stages of a pharmacy professional’s career”.…

RPS calls for authorisation of pharmacy technicians to supervise pharmacies to be documented

In response to the government's consultation on pharmacy supervision, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society said the authorisation of a pharmacy technician to prepare and assemble medicines should be documented to protect both pharmacists and pharmacy technicians.…

National pharmacy board meetings: February 2024

In the first national pharmacy board meetings of the year, each group discussed their plans and priorities for the year ahead.…

Increase in patient nominations for distance-selling pharmacies slows drastically

Exclusive: The increase in the number of patients nominating a distance-selling pharmacy slowed to 4% over the past two years, down from almost 100% in the previous two years.…

Allowing pharmacy technicians to supervise hospital aseptic facilities would increase risk of ‘catastrophic clinical error’, says PDA

Responding to the government's consultation on pharmacy supervision, the Pharmacists' Defence Association said that pharmacy technicians do not have the “clinical knowledge” needed to supervise hospital aseptic facilities.…

RPS warns four out of five community pharmacy clinical lead roles could disappear when NHS funding ends

Exclusive: Two years after 42 community pharmacy clinical lead posts across integrated care systems were announced, funding for the roles is due to end in April 2024.…

Allow all pharmacy staff to prepare and assemble medication without supervision, says Community Pharmacy Scotland

In its response to a government consultation, Community Pharmacy Scotland said the preparation and assembly of medications “can be safely carried out from a registered pharmacy premises, without requiring supervision by a Responsible Pharmacist or an authorised pharmacy technician”.…

Pharmacies carried out 3,000 Pharmacy First consultations in first three days, says minister

Health minister Lord Markham also told the House of Lords that the service had been managed well so far.…

Almost all pharmacists say patients have declined medicines prescribed to them because of cost, survey reveals

Of respondents to a survey, 3% of pharmacists said they had “never” experienced patients declining part of their prescription owing to the cost.…