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Community Pharmacy England has published new guidance to help community pharmacy owners complete the latest Data Security and Protection Toolkit. The Toolkit is used to make a pharmacy’s information governance (IG) declaration and must be completed by Sunday 30th June 2024.   Community Pharmacy England has collaborated with the NHS DSPTK team to keep the workload [...]

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Prevent is an aspect of the Government’s counter-terrorism strategy (CONTEST) and aims to reduce the threat to the UK from terrorism by stopping people from becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism. Whilst this is not directly aimed at community pharmacy, healthcare professionals do have a key role in relation to safeguarding, specifically vulnerable people at risk [...]

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A new collaborative approach has been launched to address challenges surrounding the recycling of medicine packaging. The Circularity in Primary Pharmaceutical Packaging Accelerator (CiPPPA) initiative has been launched to connect stakeholders across the pharmaceutical supply chain to work together to develop and implement strategies for recycling primary pharmaceutical packaging. Community Pharmacy England and, for example, [...]

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Community Pharmacy England and others have contributed to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s (RPS) revised professional standards for responding to patient safety incidents. The Patient Safety Professional Standards: Responding to Patient Safety Incidents has been developed by the RPS, Association of Pharmacy Technicians UK and Pharmacy Forum NI, with the support of a steering group and a [...]

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The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has today announced plans to update legislation which will enable registered pharmacy technicians to supply and administer medicines under a patient group direction (PGD). This announcement follows a DHSC consultation on the use of PGDs by Pharmacy Technicians last year, which Community Pharmacy England responded to positively. [...]

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