Monthly Archives: October 2025

BBC News, The Independent  Pharmacy teams have faced major issues in recent days, with many patients booking COVID-19 vaccinations through the National Booking System (NBS) despite not being eligible this winter. Only those aged 75 and over, and younger patients with weakened immune systems, qualify for free boosters this year. Alastair Buxton, Director of NHS [...]

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Pharmacy teams have reported major issues to us over the last two days related to large numbers of patients booking COVID-19 vaccinations via the National Booking System (NBS) who are not eligible for the vaccine this winter. We are working with NHS England to try to address this unacceptable situation and to get more NHS [...]

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Pharmacy representatives are encouraged to complete this brand new scan-to-shelf, digital medicines & NHS App survey for pharmacy reps. The survey will take about 9 minutes to complete. The feedback on the new NHSE survey will help the NHS Digital Medicines team, Community Pharmacy England and the sector and its IT group understand the challenges [...]

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Regulations permitting hub and spoke dispensing between different retail pharmacy businesses have come into effect today (1st October 2025).  It has been almost 10 years since draft legislation was proposed to enable hub and spoke dispensing between different retail pharmacy businesses. Today, on 1st October 2025, hub and spoke provisions in The Human Medicines (Amendments [...]

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Independent pharmacy owners are being invited to express interest in joining our committee. One additional place has been created for the category of pharmacy owners operating between one and nine pharmacy premises. The changes are part of ongoing work to adjust the composition and size of our committee, to better reflect the make-up of the [...]

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