Monthly Archives: June 2023

Pharmacy press During the public inquiry into the Government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, former health secretary Matt Hancock said that work on medicine supply chains in preparations for a no-deal Brexit ‘was the difference between running out of medicines in the peak of the pandemic and not running out’. He credited the work undertaken [...]

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Pharmacy press The Government has announced a new Digital NHS Health Check to be rolled out across England next spring delivering an additional one million checks in the first 4 years. Read Government announcement Director of NHS Services, Alastair Buxton, said: “The original Government announcement of the plan to adopt a digital approach to NHS [...]

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From Thursday 29 June 2023, the NHSBSA has enabled functionality to allow pharmacies to sell all types of Prescription Prepayment Certificates (PPCs) through the Manage Your Service (MYS) portal. The selling of PPCs through the MYS portal is an optional, unfunded activity for pharmacies. Patients can purchase PPCs directly from the NHSBSA website, and this is the [...]

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Community pharmacists are able to access fully-funded, flexible training to expand their clinical skills and improve patient care. Courses currently include: Clinical examination skills This training will be delivered online, with optional face-to-face attendance for pharmacists who would find this beneficial. Pharmacists will be required to complete a module on history taking and identification of [...]

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Hypertension case-finding service: you must use an IT system from September NHS England has announced that pharmacy owners will need to use an NHS approved clinical IT system to make their clinical records and payment claims for the Hypertension case-finding service from 1st September 2023. To begin with, it is expected the following four IT [...]

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