Yearly Archives: 2023

The Sun Rising costs have led to hundreds of pharmacies shutting for good – at a time when they have been given extra duties to help patients struggling to see their GPs. The Sun on Sunday explored the financial and operational pressures on pharmacies that are leading to numerous closures. Our Chief Executive Janet Morrison [...]

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Following discussions between Community Pharmacy England and the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) regarding medicine pricing issues reported by pharmacy owners, the Department has today (18/08/2023) announced the following initial list of price concessions for August 2023: Drug Pack size Price concession Acamprosate 333mg gastro-resistant tablets 168 £23.80 Aciclovir 800mg tablets 35 £4.19 Atorvastatin [...]

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Following previous announcements, the Summary Care Record (SCRa) application portal is scheduled to be replaced by a new system called the National Care Records Service (NCRS) from September 2023. From now until 29th September 2023, both the SCRa portal and the NCRS portal will be accessible. Differences between the NCRS portal and the SCR portal: [...]

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NHS England has, published information on its Independent Prescribing Pathfinder programme for community pharmacy, having this week sent a letter to all integrated care boards (ICBs) on this topic. Information on a new Independent Prescribing webpage describes how the programme of pilot sites will operate. The central aim is to support and test different prescribing [...]

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The Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education (CPPE), in collaboration with the Pharmacy Integration Programme at NHS England, has launched the community pharmacy technician: advancing your role learning programme. The programme is designed to help community pharmacy technicians develop the skills and confidence to support effective service delivery in community pharmacy. Pharmacy technicians who currently work [...]

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