BMJ Best Practice is a clinical decision support tool that provides healthcare professionals quick and easy access to the latest evidence-based information to assist with making diagnosis, understanding prognosis, considering treatment information and advising on preventative options. The information is updated daily and is linked to international guidelines and UK clinical information sources such as...
NHS England and NHS Improvement (NHSE&I) confirmed yesterday (11th January 2021), that the Government has decided to extend the provision of supplies of free COVID-19 personal protective equipment (PPE) beyond the end of March 2021. The Department of Health and Social Care’s (DHSC) PPE portal can continue to be used by community pharmacies to...
UK-REACH is a United Kingdom Research study into Ethnicity and COVID-19 outcomes in Healthcare workers. Registered healthcare workers living and working in the UK are being invited to take part in the study. What is the purpose of the study? The researchers hope to recruit 30,000 healthcare workers to provide a comprehensive picture of the...
NHS England and NHS Improvement (NHSE&I) have, today (7th January 2021), written to NHS Trusts and other NHS bodies to provide additional operational guidance on the vaccination of frontline health and social care workers. We have summarised the key points for pharmacy contractors and their teams in the following questions and answers. Q. Are community...
With contractors reporting that demand for flu vaccination had fallen away in many areas, in December 2020, PSNC asked the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), Public Health England (PHE) and NHS England and NHS Improvement (NHSE&I) to look again at what was being done to promote vaccinations to the 50-64-year-old cohort. They have confirmed...
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