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AAH launches WhatsApp channel for 'instant updates’ on delivery delays

The wholesaler has announced the launch of a WhatsApp group that will keep customers updated on delivery delays, broken IT systems and other service updates.  

Digital Businesses

Are you ready for Pharmacy First? Deadlines for upfront cash announced

Pharmacies must sign up to deliver the new Pharmacy First service by the end of the year to receive a £2,000 cash injection in time for the service launch in February, the negotiator has announced. 

Funding Services

Pharmacies field calls from 'anxious' patients as ADHD med shortages persist

Pharmacy teams have reacted with dismay as an attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) charity has revealed that supply issues for ADHD drugs will continue well into 2024.

Medicines Prescriptions

Most independents don’t think pharmacy negotiator is ‘representative’, says AIMp

The Association of Independent Multiple Pharmacies (AIMp) has called for Community Pharmacy England (CPE) to “adopt a model of proportionality” for its committee. 
 

Pharmacy organisations Multiples

‘Powerful and dangerous’ illicit medicines seized in Manchester raids

“Hundreds of thousands of doses” of suspected illegally traded drugs were seized by the UK’s medicines watchdog in Manchester this week.

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UPDATED: Living wage increase will cost pharmacy sector up to £195m, warns CPE

The pharmacy negotiator has said that the increased national living wage is “not sustainable” for the sector without additional funding.

Businesses Money
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Ash Soni: Independents ‘not aware of just how financially challenged’ they are

The president of the National Association of Primary Care (NAPC) has warned that many independent pharmacy owners aren’t aware of the extent of the financial challenges they face. 

General Business Money

No plans to expand Pharmacy First conditions ‘at present’, says Leadsom

The government has said that no assessment has been made “so far” into expanding the new common conditions service beyond the initial seven conditions it will cover. 

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Coronavirus News

How to optimise the COVID-19 vaccination service in your pharmacy

Four industry insiders explain why they are providing NHS COVID-19 vaccines this season – despite a challenging backdrop of funding pressures and capacity constraints

Businesses Money
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Number of pharmacies offering NHS COVID-19 jabs rockets to almost double

Thousands more pharmacies in England will offer a COVID-19 vaccination service this season despite slashed fees and a confusing start to the programme, C+D has learned.

COVID-19 Vaccination
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Manufacturers and multiple ‘currently exploring’ rollout of private COVID jabs

COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers are “exploring” the potential of providing their jabs privately, C+D has learned. 

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‘Powerful and dangerous’ illicit medicines seized in Manchester raids

“Hundreds of thousands of doses” of suspected illegally traded drugs were seized by the UK’s medicines watchdog in Manchester this week.

Crime Products
BREAKING

UPDATED: Competition watchdog probes Pharmacy2U purchase of LloydsDirect

The competition authority is looking into the “assets merger” of Pharmacy2U and LloydsDirect, the UK’s two largest online pharmacies, it has revealed.

Businesses Digital

Ombudsman made ‘detailed' probe into just one pharmacy complaint last year

Only one of out almost 500 complaints received by the health ombudsman last year about pharmacies was accepted for “detailed investigation”, it has revealed.

Regulatory bodies Multiples
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Clinical News

Are you ready for Pharmacy First? Deadlines for upfront cash announced

Pharmacies must sign up to deliver the new Pharmacy First service by the end of the year to receive a £2,000 cash injection in time for the service launch in February, the negotiator has announced. 

Funding Services

Pharmacies field calls from 'anxious' patients as ADHD med shortages persist

Pharmacy teams have reacted with dismay as an attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) charity has revealed that supply issues for ADHD drugs will continue well into 2024.

Medicines Prescriptions

Most independents don’t think pharmacy negotiator is ‘representative’, says AIMp

The Association of Independent Multiple Pharmacies (AIMp) has called for Community Pharmacy England (CPE) to “adopt a model of proportionality” for its committee. 
 

Pharmacy organisations Multiples
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Education News

IP pharmacists may not ‘choose to prescribe that often’, says CPhO

NHS chief pharmaceutical officer (CPhO) for England David Webb has said that independent prescriber pharmacists will bring a “judicious approach" to prescribing. 

Prescriptions Medicines

‘Possible cheating’ during June registration assessment, GPhC reveals

There were five allegations of cheating during this June’s registration assessment, the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) has revealed. 

Registration exam GPhC
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New pharmacy school set to open at Teesside University

A new pharmacy school is set to open at Teesside University from 2025, the university has revealed to C+D.

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Are you ready for Pharmacy First? Deadlines for upfront cash announced

Pharmacies must sign up to deliver the new Pharmacy First service by the end of the year to receive a £2,000 cash injection in time for the service launch in February, the negotiator has announced. 

Funding Services
BREAKING

UPDATED: Living wage increase will cost pharmacy sector up to £195m, warns CPE

The pharmacy negotiator has said that the increased national living wage is “not sustainable” for the sector without additional funding.

Businesses Money
EXCLUSIVE

Ash Soni: Independents ‘not aware of just how financially challenged’ they are

The president of the National Association of Primary Care (NAPC) has warned that many independent pharmacy owners aren’t aware of the extent of the financial challenges they face. 

General Business Money
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UPDATED: Living wage increase will cost pharmacy sector up to £195m, warns CPE

The pharmacy negotiator has said that the increased national living wage is “not sustainable” for the sector without additional funding.

Businesses Money

‘Death blow’: Contractors despair amid ‘biggest ever’ rise to living wage

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has announced that the national living wage will rise by 9.8%, but pharmacy contractors have warned this will be a “death blow” to the sector.

Funding Politicians

Pharmacy First: Pharmacists ‘not a substitute' for doctors, say top GPs

GP chiefs have said that pharmacists are “not a substitute” for GPs in the wake of the long-awaited announcement of the new Pharmacy First common ailments service.

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