Government to consult on vaccination cost-effectiveness decisions The government is consulting health economists and other public health stakeholders on proposed profound changes to the methodology used to decide the cost-effectiveness of vaccination programmes in England.…
Vaping comes out of the smoking closet Public Health England has called on the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency to expedite the licensing of e-cigarettes as medicinal stop-smoking aids.…
Cancer Research-funded study suggests quit-smoking services should work with vape shops Stop-smoking services should consider working with reputable vape shops to ensure that people attempting to quit smoking using e-cigarettes receive the highest level of support.…
Public Health England seeks to improve opioid substitution treatment Public Health England has launched an opioid treatment quality improvement programme, and aims to develop tools to improve the quality of treatment…
Mandatory public health services provided by local authorities to be reviewed Pharmacists have called for local needs analyses to be carried out on what additional services individual communities require…
Drinking alcohol increases cancer risk Drinking alcohol increases the risk of developing cancer, yet only 13% of adults are aware of the link.…
Stop-smoking services from community pharmacists cut by a fifth of local authorities in past three years A freedom of information request from The Pharmaceutical Journal revealed that almost a fifth of local authorities in England decommissioned community pharmacy-led smoking cessation services in the past three years…
Rethinking the clinical interpretation of blood pressure readings taken in pharmacies New research into blood pressure measurements taken in different settings could help pharmacists interpret blood pressure readings better and help them offer appropriate advice to patients.…
Smoking cessation: shifting the research focus to community pharmacy Evidence suggests that smoking cessation interventions can be effective in UK pharmacies but there are few trials with validated endpoints.…
Pharmacists can help reduce GP non-attendance, Scottish pharmacists say Scottish patients should be encouraged to use community pharmacists more to reduce non-attendance at primary care appointments, Community Pharmacy Scotland has said…