Pharmacy press The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) issued a medicine supply notification for GLP-1 receptor agonists used in the management of type 2 diabetes. We were asked to comment on the shortage and how community pharmacists will be dealing with people presenting prescriptions for these products. Director of Pharmacy Funding, Mike Dent, [...]
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A plan to increase and develop the NHS workforce, including community pharmacists and their teams, has been published by the Government and NHS today. The long awaited NHS Long Term Workforce Plan maps out a strategy to recruit and retain hundreds of thousands more staff spanning 15 years. Its projections suggest that, by 2036/37, the [...]
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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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Pharmacy press Nearly 100,000 more people with cardiovascular disease than expected have died since the start of the pandemic in England, according to analysis published by the British Heart Foundation (BHF). Read BHF’s press release Director of NHS Services, Alastair Buxton, said: “It is concerning to hear that there have been tens of thousands of [...]
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