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网页The National Pharmacy Association (NPA) will ballot its members for the very first time on work to rule action next week – and has warned it could result in ‘a lot’ of pharmacies shutting on Saturdays by the end of the year. Chemist+Druggist is a multimedia publisher that provides award-winning pharmacy news, views and CPD content to ...
C+D Snap Poll: 85% in favour of community pharmacy collective …
网页1 小时前 · The result of a snap C+D poll has shown an overwhelming 85% of pharmacy contractors and workers are in support of the National Pharmacy Association’s (NPA) ballot on work to rule action.. The poll comes after the NPA announced earlier this month that it will ballot its members for the very first time on the collective action and warned it could result in “a lot” of pharmacies shutting on ...
UK’s first private pharmacy COVID-19 vaccine service launched …
网页2024年2月1日 · 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 ...
Private pharmacy RSV and dengue fever vaccine services launch in …
网页2023年10月15日 · 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.
UPDATED: Pharmacy services disrupted by 'global IT outages
网页2024年7月19日 · EPS affected. Community Pharmacy England (CPE) said that “some users of the community pharmacy EMIS ProScript electronic prescription service (EPS) system are also being affected”. “EMIS ProScript has advised its pharmacy users that it will issue further updates as it works to fix these issues,” it added. The negotiator said that ...
Pharmacist original pack dispensing permitted from January
网页2024年9月6日 · News. Pharmacists in England will be permitted to supply medication different from the prescribed quantity within a 10% margin to keep it in its original packaging from January, thanks to regulatory amendments. James Stent. The government said the reforms had garnered "significant support" despite multiple concerns raised.
'Somewhat behind': NHSE reveals plans to add patient safety to …
网页2 天之前 · Additional pharmacy CPD “requirements” around patient safety are being mulled over by NHSE, a new “primary care patient safety strategy” yesterday (September 26) revealed. The strategy documents laid out “the national and local commitments to improve patient safety in primary care ...
‘Worse than ever’: Which medicines are pharmacists struggling
网页2022年8月30日 · JWW Allison in Cockermouth, Cumbria, is “at present” struggling to get hold of “quite a few” medicines, its director Nat Mitchell told C+D, including Buscopan, Asacol tablets, HRT gel Sandrena, Dioralyte, hydrocortisone ampoules and the rabies vaccine. Shortages for these products have been particularly pronounced in …
UPDATED - 'Get a grip': HSCC calls for rapid change to drug ... - C+D
网页2024年5月29日 · UPDATED - 'Get a grip': HSCC calls for rapid change to drug substitution rules. The health and social care committee’s (HSCC) pharmacy inquiry report has demanded drastic changes to sector funding and pharmacist substitution powers. The health and social care committee (HSCC) today (May 29) urged the government to update regulations on ...
‘Thriving market’: Minister upbeat about community pharmacy
网页2024年3月26日 · Pharmacy minister Dame Andrea Leadsom said that the community pharmacy sector “continues to be a thriving market”, at the final session of the health and social care committee’s (HSCC) pharmacy inquiry today (March 26). “I think the overall package of support and also provision remains very strong,” said Dame Andrea, who took over as pharmacy minister in November last year.