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The Royal Osteoporosis Society (ROS) has launched a new BoneMed online service, a free service to supports patients taking medicines for osteoporosis and remove barriers to medicines adherence. After a five minute online survey, patients receive an online medicine summary and six emails over a year tailored to the medicine they’ve been prescribed. Topics covered include: [...]

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Several months ago Community Pharmacy England and Healthwatch England launched an online Pharmacy First patient survey that pharmacy owners can direct patients to after receiving the service. The aim of this collaboration is to collect patient feedback on the service to help inform service improvements and to help to quantify the value of the service [...]

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A new streamlined process for making claims for the Discharge Medicines Service (DMS) will come into effect from 6th July 2025. Following feedback from Community Pharmacy England about the current lengthy claim process, NHS England and NHSBSA have agreed to introduce a shortened process for making claims for DMS. In time, an API will be [...]

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As the provision of clinical services in community pharmacies continues to grow, pharmacy professionals who want to update their knowledge of best practice in record keeping can access the Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education Documenting in patient clinical records e-learning programme. This learning programme will support pharmacy professionals to: Summarise the legal and regulatory requirements [...]

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From today (1st June 2025) several changes take effect for the Pharmacy First service following the announcement of these as part of the contractual settlement for 2025/26. Below is a reminder of these changes. ‘Bundling’ requirements for the monthly payment From today, the bundling requirements for Pharmacy First come into force, which impacts on whether [...]

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