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WEBLord Darzi’s report into the NHS has noted that community pharmacy has struggled with “too few resources” but has “huge potential for a step change” in its role. Chemist+Druggist is a multimedia publisher that provides award-winning pharmacy news, views and CPD content to those working in the sector.
Revealed: Almost 47,000 hours lost to temporary pharmacy …
WEB13 hours ago — In 2023 alone, some 46,823 hours were lost to temporary closure – the equivalent of 5,852 standard pharmacy working days, new data from 41 of England’s 42 integrated care boards (ICBs) has revealed. The figures, collated via Freedom of Information request by Healthwatch England, show that a ...
Streeting slams NPA ‘sabre-rattling’ over collective action
WEB8 hours ago — Streeting said he gets “the scale of the challenge” for community pharmacy. The health secretary has criticised the National Pharmacy Association (NPA) for “an unhelpful degree of sabre-rattling and threats of collective action” at a Labour Party conference session this week (September 22). Speaking …
‘Deep distress’: Almost two-thirds of pharmacies losing money
WEBAug 27, 2024 — Kate Bowie. “Countless pharmacies are at risk of closure”. “Almost 65% of pharmacy premises report they are losing money,” Community Pharmacy England (CPE) this weekend (August 25) revealed. The negotiator’s 2024 pharmacy pressures survey, which garnered responses from 900 pharmacy owners and …
UK’s first private pharmacy COVID-19 vaccine service launched …
WEBFeb 1, 2024 — Pharmacies can now sign up to offer the UK’s “first” private COVID-19 vaccination service as of today, Pharmadoctor revealed to C+D today (February 1). The pharmacy service provider said that COVID-19 vaccination stock will be available to its more than 8,000 partner pharmacies by April 1 “at the latest” and that it will “help ...
Pharmacy First: GP referral tech to reduce 'informal signposting ...
WEB1 day ago — The update comes as Community Pharmacy England (CPE) last week (September 20) published poll data revealing that “almost half” of respondents had “seen a reduction in Pharmacy First referrals” due to GP collective action. The negotiator said that it polled some 4,589 English pharmacy owners between August 9 and August 26 on “the ...
Top pharmacies suspended from Pharmacy First scheme
WEB3 days ago — Four pharmacies have been suspended from the Pharmacy First service, NHS England in London (NHSE-L) told C+D last week (September 18). The four suspended pharmacies are Optipharm, Overton & Pickup, Meacher, Higgins & Thomas, and Cavendish, it said. These pharmacies have been the leading providers of Pharmacy First minor illness referral ...
Private pharmacy RSV and dengue fever vaccine services launch in …
WEBOct 15, 2023 — Common but highly contagious respiratory virus RSV can be indistinguishable from a cold in healthy adults and older children but can lead to severe respiratory illness like bronchiolitis and pneumonia in infants, young children, the elderly and those with compromised immune systems, it added.
AI outperforms pharmacists in clinical quiz, researchers find
WEB2 days ago — Pharmacy researchers from Dutch medical centres have found that artificial intelligence (AI) software ChatGPT outperformed pharmacists when tested about clinical pharmacy, according to a study published in the September issue of the Journal Of Clinical Pharmacology. ChatGPT achieved “accurate responses” for 79% of …
UPDATED: Pharmacists can supply antivirals at NHS expense as flu …
WEBDec 14, 2023 — The NHS will now pick up the bill for oseltamivir and zanamivir, the Department of Health and Social Care (DH) and NHS England have announced in a joint circular published today (December 14).. The antivirals may now be dispensed "at NHS expense" by community pharmacists to prevent and treat influenza for people in “at-risk” groups or those “at risk of severe illness”, according to the ...