Health & NHS

Last year saw the first drop in spending on medicines in the community in Scotland in a decade.

North East London LPC is holding elections to decide the pharmacist leads for all 40 primary care networks in the area.

NHS will conduct trials of as yet unlicensed inclisiran in bid to cut deaths from heart disease.

Warnings against fad diets and nutritional quick-fixes have been highlighted by professor Stephen Powis.

NHS England and NHS Improvement to launch an updated Help Us Help You Pharmacy Advice campaign on 20 January.

Misuse of heroin pushes drug misuse deaths up by 17 per cent to 2,917.

Hospital and intensive care admission rates for flu has decreased over the last week but GP consultations increased.      

NHS Digital has reported that the number of patients using the NHS App has more than doubled since September.

Advice on which flu vaccines to order for 2020-21 has been issued by NHS England and NHS Improvement.

The final days of 2019 saw influenza activity continuing to increase in the community.

Consultation under way on first draft PCN service specifications.

Pharmacists and pre-reg posts part of Scottish National Health and Social Care Workforce Plan.

The NHS “is not and never will be for sale,” the new Conservative Government said in its Queen’s speech.

Matt Hancock: "We will unleash the potential of our pharmacies because there really is so much more they are capable of doing."

Anita White, the National Association of Women Pharmacists president, says “more needs to be done” to ensure gender equality.    

RPS president Sandra Gidley said online pharmacies can check medicines prescribed to patients after the death of a woman.

The study of 2,000 people found that 66 per cent are worried they will catch a sore throat or cough while using public transport. 

Local approaches to PCNs should be co-ordinated, says North East London LPC chief officer Hemant Patel. 

The UK’s Border Force seized 1.3 million illegal diazepam tablets last year - some supplied by online pharmacies.

MHRA looking at reclassification of HRT and OCs to Pharmacy medicines.