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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 [...]

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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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Following discussions with Community Pharmacy England, NHS England has published the service specification for the 2024/25 Community Pharmacy Seasonal Influenza Vaccination Advanced Service. This early publication aims to support the planning and provision of the service by pharmacy owners and will assist any service providers should an autumn COVID-19 vaccination service be considered, as any [...]

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The Lateral flow device tests supply service for patients potentially eligible for COVID-19 treatments (LFD service) will continue to be commissioned as an Advanced service in 2024/25. In addition, from 1st April 2024, the following additional patient groups will be eligible to access the LFD service, as well as those previously eligible for the service: [...]

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