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Health news round-up: NICE approvals, surveillance data and GLP-1 warnings

A weekly summary of important developments in pharmacy and health news that you may have missed.…

PJ view: Access to rare disease treatment should not be a rarity

Policymakers and healthcare leaders must persevere with long overdue changes to improve access to treatments for rare diseases.…

Managing the shift to prescribing at registration for pharmacists

Prescribing from registration offers pharmacy and the wider healthcare sector a great opportunity, but this reform must be managed and supported properly.…

Pharmacy bodies express anger over exclusion from business rates relief

Community pharmacy representatives disappointed that pharmacies were not included in government decision to cut business rates for pubs and live music venues.…

NICE recommends treatment that could help 30,000 people with COPD

Guidance says dupilumab can be offered as an add-on maintenance treatment for adults with uncontrolled COPD.…

Community pharmacies face ‘economic peril’, CPE warns government

In an “uncompromising” letter, Community Pharmacy England said negotiations for the next pharmacy contract must close the funding gap for the sector.…

Pharmacy2U acquires Care Quality Pharmacy

Care Quality Pharmacy offers prescription and NHS services to a variety of care home groups, extra care services and domiciliary care agencies.…

Everything you need to know about PrEP provision in community pharmacy

Provision of pre-exposure prophylaxis is increasing across the UK and it has been shown to be highly effective. But why has there been so little progress on the long called-for expansion to provide the drugs via community pharmacy?…

Concerns raised that pharmacists in Scotland may not be able to opt out of assisted dying process

Scottish shadow health secretary Sandesh Gulhane has expressed concerns that protections for Scottish pharmacists could be weakened without an opt-out model for the Assisted Dying (Terminally Ill Adults) Bill.…

UKPPLAB to publish proposals for ‘effective’ pharmacy leadership

The UK Pharmacy Professional Leadership Advisory Board said the RPS’s transition to becoming a royal college would offer a chance to “prioritise excellence and ambition in education, innovation and research”.…