Wales

Welsh community pharmacy has increased share of flu vaccinations in every year

Welsh community pharmacies have delivered an increasing proportion of Wales’s flu vaccines each year since 2012, according to data published in Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy.…

Suzanne Scott-Thomas takes fourth term as chair of Welsh Pharmacy Board

Suzanne Scott-Thomas has been re-appointed as chair of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Welsh Pharmacy Board. Her appointment was agreed during a meeting of the Board held at the Society’s Cardiff offices on 12 June 2019, after no other candidates were nominated.…

How the RPS in Wales helped shape the vision for pharmacy’s future

Announced at the Welsh Pharmacy Conference on 23 May 2019 and project managed by Royal Pharmaceutical Society Wales, a new ten-year vision for pharmaceutical care in Wales plan sets out 14 principles aimed to transform the sector.…

Two health boards in Wales consider switch to community pharmacy contractors for hospital outpatient pharmacy

Two health boards in Wales are considering moving their hospital outpatient dispensing to external community pharmacy contractors, prompting accusations of NHS privatisation.…

Prison healthcare in Wales suffers ‘significant workforce challenges’, RPS says

The delivery of prison healthcare in Wales is suffering “from significant workforce challenges”, with “large numbers of pharmacy staff” required to improve quality of care for inmates, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society in Wales has warned.…

Almost all community pharmacies able to provide common ailments service in Wales

Wales’s health minister has praised the results of the common ailments service and confirmed that it is now being provided by almost all pharmacies in Wales.…

Welsh government commits £100k to provide minor ailment training for pharmacists

Pharmacists in Wales are to receive extra training in minor ailments as part of a scheme worth £100,000, the government has announced.…

All community pharmacies in Wales to have an independent prescriber as part of long-term plan for Welsh pharmacy

Every community pharmacy in Wales will employ an pharmacy independent prescriber by 2030 under a long-term plan for the profession.…

Elen Jones appointed as new RPS director for Wales

Elen Jones has been appointed to succeed Mair Davies as the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s director for Wales.…

Restrictions on prescribing OTC treatments rejected in Wales

Proposals to restrict the prescribing of medicines and other treatments that are available over the counter will not go ahead in Wales.…