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.…
RPS Wales and Scotland publish manifestos ahead of 2021 devolved parliamentary elections The Royal Pharmaceutical Society in Wales and in Scotland have published their manifestos ahead of the 2021 parliamentary elections in their respective nations.…
Drug-related deaths in England and Wales remain at record levels, ONS report shows Deaths related to drug poisoning remained at record levels in 2019, according to figures published by the Office of National Statistics.…
Welsh pharmacy flu vaccinations increase ten-fold on same period last year Community pharmacies in Wales delivered ten times more flu vaccines in September 2020 compared with the same month in 2019.…
Almost all patients who used pharmacy sore throat test and treat service would choose service again Nearly 100% of patients who accessed a community pharmacy sore throat test and treat service said they would return to their pharmacy for subsequent sore throat symptoms, a survey has found.…
Community pharmacist vacancy rates as high as one in five in some parts of Wales, first ever workforce survey reveals One region in Wales had a pharmacist vacancy rate of 19%, the first community pharmacy workforce survey in the country has revealed.…
