Health news round-up: NICE approvals, fighting AMR and medicines safety concerns Senior clinical reporter Joanna Robertson summarises some important developments in health news.…
NHS home testing identifies hundreds with hepatitis C More than 105,000 people in England have ordered the test since the home-testing service launched in May 2023, with more than 200 testing positive.…
Pharmacies to offer children’s flu vaccinations from October 2025 The NHS England advanced service will enable community pharmacies to opt in and expand the delivery of vaccines to children too young to be offered them in school.…
Community pharmacies in 2024/2025 administered highest number of flu vaccinations outside of pandemic Of the 4 million flu vaccinations delivered by community pharmacies in England during the 2024/2025 flu season, data show that 11% were administered in the most deprived areas.…
Walk-in flu vaccine finder for community pharmacy to be launched for 2025/2026 flu season NHS England said the “flu walk-in finder” was developed in response to patient feedback that complained of restrictions to the national booking service and a lack of information on clinic times.…
Pharmacy flu vaccine delivery to over-65s increased by 20 percentage points in five years Data from the UK Health Security Agency show that since 2019/2020, the proportion of vaccines administered to at-risk patients via community pharmacies rose from 11.4% to 26.7%.…
Test your knowledge of dermatological conditions One in four people in England and Wales visit their GP about a dermatological condition each year. Here, test your knowledge of these common conditions and their management.…
Medicines derived from UK blood plasma distributed to NHS hospitals for ‘first time in a generation’ More than 250,000 litres of plasma from UK donors have been sent to human protein product manufacturer Octapharma to produce NHS medicines for the first time since a 1998 ban.…
Genomics surveillance programme for hepatitis C launched by UK Health Security Agency In order to monitor hepatitis C virus strains that are resistant to antiviral medicines, the UK Health Security Agency has set up a genomic surveillance programme to seek genetic markers for drug resistance.…
HIV patients should switch to long-acting antiretroviral injectable treatments sooner, study concludes Researchers found that 98% of patients who were not virally suppressed at the start of the study had non-detectable viral loads after 11 months of long-acting antiretroviral injectable treatment.…
