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The Home Office has announced that the Ask for ANI emergency codeword scheme that was launched during the pandemic will conclude on 4th November 2024. Both the Ask for ANI and Safe Spaces programme featured in the 2022/23 Pharmacy Quality Scheme (PQS) with staff being asked to complete reading and training around the two schemes. [...]

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The ability of pharmacy owners to achieve the thresholds for the monthly Pharmacy First payment has been an ongoing topic of great concern for pharmacy owners and Community Pharmacy England, particularly as the October increase to 30 clinical pathways got closer.  We have been discussing this issue over the last few weeks with the Department [...]

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An evaluation of oral anticoagulant safety indicators by community pharmacies in England has been published in the pharmacy MDPI journal. As part of the Pharmacy Quality Scheme (PQS) in 2021/22 and 2023/24 community pharmacy teams participated in two audits to understand the impact pharmacy teams have on improving anticoagulant safety. Approximately 11,000 community pharmacy teams [...]

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NHS England has this week sent out a further cascade message to NHS pharmacy contract teams for distribution to all pharmacies via email (this follows on from the initial message that was emailed on 24th June 2024) regarding post event messages on PharmOutcomes. The new cascade message highlights the actions that pharmacy owners who use [...]

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This is the fourth of a series of articles to tackle some of the misconceptions around Pharmacy First. The articles will cover a variety of aspects of Pharmacy First and aims to myth bust, to increase understanding of the service. Patients with only certain minor illnesses can be electronically referred for the minor illness strand [...]

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