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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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Pharmacy owners are reminded of the requirement 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 the [...]

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Community pharmacy owners can from today (Monday 6th November 2023) start providing the Lateral flow device tests supply service for patients potentially eligible for COVID-19 treatments (LFD service). Before providing the service, pharmacy owners must have signed up on the NHSBSA’s MYS portal, after which they will be able to provide the service. Pharmacy owners [...]

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