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The NHS is offering further independent prescribing (IP) courses for community pharmacists, including locums. This training, funded by NHS England, enables pharmacists to support patients from diagnosis to prescribing, and to provide advice and follow-up – while also helping them to feel confident and prepared for the new challenges of their role. Courses are available [...]

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Pharmacy owners that are offering the Lateral Flow Device (LFD) service may want to consider approaching their local care homes to see if they would like to access free LFD test kits, ahead of the start of autumn, for those people eligible for the service.  All people aged 85 years and over are eligible for [...]

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NHS England has funded the Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education (CPPE) to offer further places on their Accuracy checking pharmacy technician (ACPT) programme for 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 meeting a range [...]

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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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Pharmacy owners and their teams (including locums) are asked to consider participating in an evaluation of the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework (CPCF) 2019-24 clinical services. NHS England has commissioned RAND Europe to conduct an independent evaluation of clinical services under the CPCF (also known as the ‘pharmacy contract’). The evaluation aims to gather input from [...]

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