Elderly care

A lorry smashing into the pharmacy storefront couldn’t stop one Isle of Wight pharmacy team from serving their elderly patients, C+D has learned.  

Elderly patients will be eligible to receive the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine from September 1 in some community pharmacies, the government has announced.

Pharmacies in Northern Ireland will treat an additional six common conditions and offer several new services “subject to securing the necessary funding”, the Northern Irish government has announced.  

The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has recommended an immunisation programme to protect infants and older adults against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).

The government has opted to keep prescriptions free for patients aged 60 and over, it has announced. 

Better integration of pharmacist independent prescribers (IPs) in care homes reduces the risk of potential harm to residents from medicine, according to new research.

Lelly Oboh, a consultant pharmacist for the care of older people at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital, London and at the NHS Specialist Pharmacy Service, reflects on her career and talks about the importance of finding the right mentor, in part two of her A Coffee With… podcast episode 

Lelly Oboh, a consultant pharmacist for the care of older people at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital, London and the NHS Specialist Pharmacy Service, reveals how she worked her way up in pharmacy after moving to the UK from Nigeria, in the latest episode of A Coffee With...

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has concluded that Calci-D 1000mg/1000 IU tablets are “sufficiently safe to be sold as a pharmacy medicine”.

An upcoming consultation on whether to make the COVID-19 vaccine mandatory for all health and social care staff will also consider extending the requirement to flu vaccinations, the Department of Health and Social Care (DH) has told C+D.