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This is the second of a series of articles to help pharmacy owners and their teams to maximise the potential of the Hypertension Case-finding Service. The re-launch of the service, including the ability to use the wider pharmacy team to provide parts of the service, allows pharmacy owners to review how they provide the service [...]

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Hep C U Later has been commissioned by NHS England to provide resources to help encourage hepatitis C testing amongst patients, to provide information to the public and update knowledge amongst healthcare professionals and their teams. It is estimated that around 70,000 people in England may still be unaware of having a hepatitis C infection. The [...]

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This is the first of a series of articles to help pharmacy owners and their teams to maximise the potential of the Hypertension Case-finding Service (HCFS). The re-launch of the service, including the ability to use the wider pharmacy team to provide parts of the service, allows pharmacy owners to review how they provide the [...]

The post Hypertension Case-Finding Service reminder (#1): Maximising the use of my team appeared first on Community Pharmacy England.

Community pharmacy owners are reminded, that the incentive fee payable for reaching the year-5 specified ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) threshold for the Hypertension Case-Finding Service ends on 31st March 2024. Pharmacy owners who have been working to meet the threshold of 20 ABPM checks for 2023/24 to be eligible for the incentive fee, must [...]

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Community pharmacy owners are reminded that the Lateral flow device tests supply service for patients potentially eligible for COVID-19 treatments (LFD service) will expand to additional patient groups from 1st April 2024. As previously announced, further details on the continued commissioning of the service and the additional patient groups are available on the LFD service page. [...]

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