Services
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.
0How does community pharmacy balance providing healthcare and being a business, and does the label of ‘private’ risk undermining community pharmacy’s role in the health system?
7The pharmacy minister has urged the NPA to “reconsider” its call for member pharmacies to take collective action from next week, arguing that it will be “detrimental to patients”.
1A Westminster think tank has said that the government’s proposed Neighbourhood Health Service, which plans to scale up general practice, could put community pharmacies at risk of being “deprioritised”.
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.
0Consultation numbers for a pharmacy service provider’s weight management service have grown “exponentially” in the last year, C+D has learned.
0Members of parliament have admitted that they “have probably not spoken enough” about the assisted dying bill’s “impact on pharmacists”.
2MP and pharmacist Sadik Al-Hassan has said the promised community pharmacy prescribing service is “deliverable” but not ready yet.
9The National Pharmacy Association (NPA) has announced that it is advising its 6,000 member pharmacies to limit services and reduce opening hours in protest against “unsustainable” funding.
0Pharmacies in Scotland have been asked to ensure they have the “appropriate stock” of naloxone – a medicine used to reverse the effects of an opiate overdose – following an “increase in sudden collapse” due to overdoses.