Pharmacy services

Contract

Clinical services to be included in advance payments from April

DHSC has agreed to make advance payments for clinical services. Payments for HCFS and PCS to start in April.

08 Apr 2025 , 1 Min Article

Services

Asda launches £25 earache service ‘to reduce NHS burden’

Asda launches new service for over-18s with acute otitis media.

27 Feb 2025 , 1 Min Article

Public health

Pharmacies can help combat falling vaccine uptake

Time to “awaken the sleeping giant” and commission pharmacies to administer more NHS vaccines.

26 Feb 2025 , 2 Min Article

Public health

CPE: Labour’s £200m public health boost should fund local pharmacy services

Community Pharmacy England director of NHS services Alastair Buxton said the money should benefit locally commissioned pharmacy services.

10 Feb 2025 , 1 Min Article

Vaccinations

All adult vaccinations should be advanced pharmacy services, says think-tank

Report from Reform says vaccination uptake could be greatly improved by making better use of community pharmacies.

01 Aug 2024 , 3 Min Article

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Policy

Northern Ireland pharmacies to go paperless by 2030

Department sets ambitious roadmap for community pharmacy including paperless transition.

08 May 2024 , 3 Min Article

CNS conditions

First prescriptions for Parkinson's disease

This module supports pharmacists when consulting with patients who have been prescribed Parkinson's medication for the first time.

04 May 2022 , 20 Min Module

Practice

Consultations about first prescriptions

This module supports pharmacists when consulting with patients prescribed a medicine for the first time.

16 Mar 2022 , 20 Min Module

Clinical services

Pharmacy in the vanguard

Where does pharmacy sit within the 50 vanguard projects at the core of the government's care models programme?

06 Jan 2016 , 4 Min Article