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PDA: Pharmacy technician qualification levels ‘too low’ to handle PGDs
The PDA has raised “safety” concerns with MPs about allowing pharmacy technicians to supply medicines under PGDs.
‘Another missed opportunity’: Sector reacts to spring budget
The Chancellor’s spring budget includes £2.5 billion “additional” funding for the NHS, but sector leaders have criticised the lack of “specific relief for community pharmacies”.
Sector bodies launch manifesto calling for ‘expanded’ Pharmacy First service
Sector leaders have joined forces to launch a new election manifesto calling for an expansion to the recently launched Pharmacy First service.
HSCC: ‘Nonsensical’ that pharmacists lack generic substitution powers
HSCC chair Steve Brine has said that allowing pharmacists to supply a different type of the same medicine could be a “potentially simple solution” to shortages, in a video address to the Sigma conference.
Pharmacy First: IT updates could be delayed by ‘months’
Pharmacies delivering the new Pharmacy First service could be stuck with “not ideal” alternative IT systems for “months” before they have full access to GP software, the government has revealed.
‘So far, so good’: 3,000 Pharmacy First consultations in first three days
Around 3,000 consultations took place in the first three days of the new Pharmacy First service, it has been revealed.
New government strategy to tackle medicines supply chain issues
The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) has issued a new supply chain strategy seeking to “mitigate” medicines supply shocks, it has announced.
GPhC ‘very aware’ of poor pharmacist wellbeing, MPs told
General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) chief executive Duncan Rudkin has told MPs that poor pharmacist wellbeing has “patient safety implications”.
GPhC reports 'growing caseload' over pharmacist prescribing
More “issues around prescribing judgments” have led the pharmacy regulator to hire inspectors with prescribing qualifications, chief executive Duncan Rudkin has told the pharmacy inquiry.
ITV to shine a light on community pharmacy in new documentary
An ITV documentary set to air this week will look at the pressures faced by the community pharmacy sector.
Supervision proposals: ‘The greatest pharmacy evolution in 70 years’
Pharmacy organisations have welcomed the proposed changes to pharmacy supervision law, although grassroots pharmacists were “conflicted” about the proposals.
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.
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