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Coronavirus: 2019-20 outbreak

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Coronavirus: 2019-20 outbreak

From July 24 it will be mandatory for patients to wear face masks in pharmacies

Lloyds and Well advise pharmacy teams not to ‘enforce’ face mask rule

Lloyds and Well are advising teams not to insist patients wear face coverings and that enforcing this is up to the police, ahead of the rule taking...

17/07/2020 30 News

Just 27% of risk assessments took ethnicity, age and long-term health conditions into account

Only a third of pharmacy employers have risk-assessed teams, PDA finds

Just over at third (36%) of pharmacy employers have carried out a risk assessment of their team for COVID-19, a recent Pharmacists’ Defence...

17/07/2020 0 News

COVID-19: Hancock looks to widen scope of who can give vaccines

The Government is developing a policy to expand the number of healthcare professionals who can give vaccines as part of its COVID-19 response.

17/07/2020 13 News

Why locums shouldn't have to provide their own PPE

An email apparently sent from Rowlands to try to get locums to provide their own PPE was an act of bad faith, says an anonymous locum

16/07/2020 4 Views

Mr Rudkin outlined the regulatory argument for COVID-19 risk assessments

GPhC: Pharmacy owners should offer locums COVID-19 risk assessments

Pharmacy contractors should treat locums as their own employees when it comes to risk assessments, General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) chief...

16/07/2020 9 News

Pharmacy minister: 3,000 closures will not happen on Hancock’s ‘watch’

There will not be mass pharmacy closures under the current government, pharmacy minister Jo Churchill pledged in a parliamentary debate on Monday (...

15/07/2020 11 News