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55 Boots branches to offer Covid booster jabs

Boots and Well to offer booster jabs from a total of 110 sites.

29 Sep 2021

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Report calls for collaboration within new care structures

It calls for more scope for collaboration between pharmacy, primary care networks and ICSs.

27 Sep 2021

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Fuel shortages: Medicines wholesalers 'severely tested'

Medicines wholesalers hit by shortages of fuel and delivery drivers, warns HDA.

27 Sep 2021

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Pharmacies in Scotland to offer bridging contraception service

Pharmacies will be able to provide a three-month supply of desogestrel after a consultation.

24 Sep 2021

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Emergency contraception prescriptions fall sharply in England

The 90,068 prescriptions dispensed last year compares with 252,800 dispensed in 2010.

23 Sep 2021

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PSNC: All contractors to get Covid costs at start of October

Costs claims "more than double" the Government's initial offer, PSNC reveals.

22 Sep 2021

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Welsh government presses ahead with ePrescribing

The plans will improve the way patients and healthcare professionals access and manage medicines.

22 Sep 2021

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Ridge review finds 10pc of all prescribed medicines unnecessary

CPhO calls for more openness and greater use of social prescribing to prevent medicines harm.

22 Sep 2021

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RPS supports Covid jab rollout for 12 to 15-year-olds

Three million youngsters will be eligible to receive a single dose of the Pfizer jab.

20 Sep 2021

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Locate a Locum Learning launched

Locate Learning launches today, increasing members access to extensive learning library.

20 Sep 2021

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BGMA demands NI-only medicine rules are scrapped

Over 3,000 medicines at risk of being withdrawn from Northern Ireland.

17 Sep 2021

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NPA: Parallel trade should be maintained in present form

Current arrangement is the best option for the UK, NPA argues.

17 Sep 2021

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Dukes: I always planned to leave PSNC after 4 years

Leaving now gives my successor time to shape future contract, says Dukes.

16 Sep 2021

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95pc of contractors will receive full Covid claim from Government

The vast majority of contractors will receive their full claim from the BSA in October.

16 Sep 2021

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Pharmacies and GPs could deliver Covid vaccines with annual flu jabs

The PSNC said the two must work together to deliver the biggest ever flu vaccination programme.

14 Sep 2021

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Collection codes required in updated lateral flow service

A number of changes are being made to the service from early October.

13 Sep 2021

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