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To receive vaccines ahead of the start of the new Childhood Flu Vaccination Service on 1st October 2025, pharmacy owners will need to register to provide the service on the MYS portal by 11.59pm on 31st August 2025. Later registration will be possible, but the provision of the centrally procured vaccine will be received after [...]

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Pharmacy owners have one week left to meet the requirements of the gateway criterion for the 2025/26 Pharmacy Quality Scheme (PQS). Pharmacy owners must have signed up to deliver the Pharmacy First Service and the Pharmacy Contraception Service (PCS) by the end of 31st August 2025 and remain registered for both services until the end [...]

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Pharmacy owners using the National Booking Service (NBS) to offer appointments for adult flu and COVID-19 vaccinations can now post appointments within the system, ahead of patients being able to use NBS to book appointments from 1st September 2025, for vaccination from 1st October 2025. The use of NBS for flu vaccinations is a voluntary [...]

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NHS England has today published the Pharmacy Quality Scheme (PQS) Antimicrobial stewardship – Pharmacy First consultations – Clinical Audit. Completion of the audit, as well as sharing anonymised data with NHS England and incorporating any learnings from the audit into future practice by the end of 31st March 2026, is a quality criterion in the [...]

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Community Pharmacy England will be holding a webinar about the new Childhood Flu Vaccination Service, in collaboration with NHS England, on Wednesday 20th August at 7.30pm. On the night Alastair Buxton, Director of NHS Services at Community Pharmacy England, and colleagues from NHS England, will explain how the service will operate and help community pharmacy [...]

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