Pharmacy press The Government issued a press release about its drive to phase out smoking, announcing that £70 million a year has been allocated for local authorities in England to support stop smoking services. We were asked to comment on the likelihood that community pharmacy smoking cessation services would be funded by this. Our Director [...]
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GP Online We shared the following statement with GP Online calling for community pharmacists to have greater powers and flexibility to alter medications without the need for Serious Shortage Protocols (SSPs) when there are problems with medicines supply. Such change would improve patient access and safety, cost effectiveness and help ease the pressure on GPs [...]
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NHS England (NHSE) has announced that from 2025/26, to support provision of an equitable offer to all foundation trainee pharmacists (previously known as pre-reg pharmacists), the funding available to all foundation training sites will be harmonised. The level of funding for each site employing a foundation trainee pharmacist in the 2025/26 training year will be [...]
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The BMJ The British Generic Manufacturers Association (BGMA) released a report based on their latest monthly dashboard highlighting a record number of products facing supply issues. According to BGMA, 111 products are now facing supply issues making this the highest on record and more than double since the start of 2022. We shared the following [...]
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Updated 12th February 2024 – updates are shown in bold below: Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has issued a medicine supply notification for Co-trimoxazole 40mg/200mg/5ml oral suspension sugar free and Co-trimoxazole 80mg/400mg/5ml oral suspension MSN/2023/103U Tier 3 – high impact Date of issue 17th November 2023 (updated 12th February 2024) Co-trimoxazole 40mg/200mg/5ml oral [...]
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