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NHS England has provided additional funding for the Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education (CPPE) to offer the Accuracy checking pharmacy technician (ACPT) programme to an additional 40 pharmacy technicians. The ACPT programme is a 3-12-month training and development programme available to pharmacy technicians, with employer support. The course is designed to support pharmacy technicians in [...]

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Pharmacy owners have just over two weeks left to complete the 2023 workforce survey, which is a mandatory requirement for all pharmacy owners. The NHS Business Services Authority sent an email to pharmacy owners containing a link to the survey on 23rd October 2023; the survey can also be accessed via the following link: Access [...]

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NHE England has today published the updated specification for the Hypertension Case-Finding Service on their website. This follows the announcement made last week around the service being relaunched to make better use of skill mix and increase provision of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM). It comes alongside the publication of the updated specification and Patient Group Directions [...]

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As a global and local priority, affecting individual patients through to consequences at a population level, antimicrobial resistance (AMR)  and the importance of good antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) has long been a critically important matter for community pharmacists and their teams. Over the last three years that has also been reflected in the content of the [...]

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Over the last few years, the community pharmacy sector has demonstrated its commitment to tackling the issue of antimicrobial resistance and worked hard on its involvement in antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) activities. This has included activities in the Pharmacy Quality Scheme over several years. The case study below, from Community Pharmacy Avon,  involves an analysis of [...]

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