Digital
0Community pharmacies now have access to a patient’s GP record at the point of delivering any NHS clinical pharmacy service, C+D has learned.
21Ministers have stressed that the core hours of pharmacies will “not be affected by the proposed action by one trade body” – and revealed that the government has “concluded” contract negotiations.
0The Danish drugmaker has launched a “direct-to-patient” pharmacy, offering "all dose strengths of Wegovy at a reduced cost”.
1A coroner has warned of the “potential dangers” of a trio of drugs, after a patient died who had been on them for four years “without concern”.
2In the first month of its updated guidance, the pharmacy regulator has already referred three individuals for fitness-to-practise (FtP) investigations for concerns around weight management drugs, C+D has learned.
5The 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.
2GPs must reinstall GP connect, which allows pharmacies to send routine consultation information to their patients’ GP practices, as part of their £889m-boosted contract, NHS England (NHSE) has revealed.
0The UK's largest digital pharmacy has launched an “app-based answer to the government’s 10-year plan”, combining pharmacy, online GP consultations, NHS, vet, health and wellbeing services into a “single platform”.
0A pharmacy has warned that that 16-24-year-olds are more likely to consider weight loss injections than older generations – in part due to the “unique pressures faced by Gen Z”.
0The pharmacy regulator has considered using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to ‘clone’ questions in part of the registration exam – and contemplated scrapping the calculations paper entirely.