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Pharmacy owners have just over a week left to start the Pharmacy Quality Scheme (PQS) Antimicrobial Stewardship – Pharmacy First consultations – Clinical Audit. The audit, which is a quality criterion in the Patient safety domain of the 2025/26 PQS, requires pharmacy owners to complete a clinical audit focused on the clinical advice and consultations provided to [...]

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Community Pharmacy England has launched a new patient-facing website to promote several of the key Advanced services that pharmacy teams provide and to direct patients to pharmacies in England that provide these services. The website (communitypharmacy.org.uk) provides information about the following three services: Pharmacy First Service (clinical pathways); Hypertension Case-Finding Service (publicly known as the [...]

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The second 2025/26 national health campaign starts in just over a weeks time (Monday 2nd February 2026). All pharmacies will need to participate in the campaign, using relevant materials to promote the Pharmacy First service to the public. How to meet the requirements of the campaign Pharmacy owners can meet the requirements of the campaign [...]

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The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) has published the questions which will be included in the 2025/26 Pharmacy Quality Scheme (PQS) declaration so pharmacy owners can view these ahead of making their declaration when the declaration window opens. The questions are available on the NHSBSA PQS hub page; scroll down to the ‘PQS 2025/26’ section where [...]

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This article tackles some of the misconceptions around rejecting Pharmacy First referrals and aims to bust myths to increase understanding of the service. We have previously published a series of articles on myth busting covering a variety of aspects of Pharmacy First. All of these myths can be viewed on our Pharmacy First service – [...]

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