Community pharmacy in Wales promised 4% funding uplift conditional on staff pay rises The uplift will increase annual community pharmacy contractual framework funding to £157.2m.…
RPS Wales asks for views on 2025 strategy The Society has put out a set of draft goals for 2025 for consultation.…
No pharmacists apply for fully funded place on genomic medicine course Exclusive: There have been no applications for funded places on the genomic medicine postgraduate course at Swansea University since the funding was allocated in 2019.…
Welsh government announces £2.4m in decarbonisation grants Health boards and NHS organisations in Wales have until 9 June 2022 to apply for the funding.…
Welsh health minister says pharmacy degree apprenticeships are ‘worth looking into’ Exclusive: Despite widespread support from members of parliament, the Welsh government has confirmed there are no plans to pursue pharmacist apprenticeships in Wales.…
More than a third of NHS trusts have no ethnic minority pharmacists at senior levels Exclusive: Of 87 NHS trusts and health boards across Great Britain that provided latest data, 34.5% do not employ pharmacists from ethnic minority backgrounds at NHS 'Agenda for change' band 8b or above.…
COVID-19 vaccinations will be provided in ‘local pharmacies’, Welsh health minister says People in Wales will be able to receive a COVID-19 vaccination from their “local GP practice or pharmacy”, Vaughn Gething, the Welsh health minister, has said.…
Welsh pharmacies save over 35,000 GP appointments each week, audit finds Around half of patients who received advice in Welsh pharmacies would otherwise have gone to their GP first, an audit by Community Pharmacy Wales has found.…
Welsh Pharmacy Board meeting: 8 October 2020 Discussions at the latest Welsh Pharmacy Board meeting revolved around how the Society can help promote independent prescribing pharmacists, the 2021 manifesto for the Welsh government elections and updates around science and research.…
Welsh pharmacy sore throat test and treat service ‘should not be routinely adopted’, review finds The use of rapid antigen detection tests in community pharmacies for the diagnosis and management of people with group A streptococcal infections should not be routinely adopted, according to guidance from Health Technology Wales.…