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Community pharmacists in England have lambasted the timing of NHS England and NHS Improvement’s announcement that free flu jabs will be axed for 50-64-year-olds in the 2022/23 flu season.
People aged 50-64 and primary care staff will no longer be eligible for a free flu jab in the 2022/23 season, NHS England and NHS Improvement (NHSE&I) wrote in a letter published on Wednesday (March 2).
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‘Vote no’ campaigner Martin Astbury tells C+D why he believes the RPS plans for change represent a shift away from pharmacist leadership and why members should vote against them this week…
I also read comments that CPE does not appreciate this critical position, and I fundamentally refute that. Knowing the colleagues, both elected and employed, at CPE as I do, this is far from the case.
Community pharmacy is risk adverse, considered, and dare I say it, conservative. But, when it comes to the survival of pharmacy, we can’t afford to let the fear of change – or those resistant to it - hold us back.
Paydens Pharmacy has announced the rollout of a private prescribing service that allows patients to access same-day care “without needing to see their GP” for £15 per consultation.
The health secretary has deemed Boots weight loss safeguards “totally unacceptable” after a new Dispatches documentary found that the pharmacy provided a 16-year-old with Wegovy against its own policy.
