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Specialist Pharmacy Service (SPS) has launched a podcast series to discuss some of the issues surrounding the Pharmacy First service and to debunk certain clinical myths around the Clinical pathway strand of the service. In the podcast series, pharmacy colleagues and expert clinical speakers cover the seven clinical conditions included in the Clinical pathway strand [...]

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Pharmacy owners are reminded of the requirement to complete the 2024 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 in October. In some cases, for example, if you work for a multiple pharmacy group, the survey [...]

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The Home Office has announced that the Ask for ANI emergency codeword scheme that was launched during the pandemic will conclude on 4th November 2024. Both the Ask for ANI and Safe Spaces programme featured in the 2022/23 Pharmacy Quality Scheme (PQS) with staff being asked to complete reading and training around the two schemes. [...]

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The ability of pharmacy owners to achieve the thresholds for the monthly Pharmacy First payment has been an ongoing topic of great concern for pharmacy owners and Community Pharmacy England, particularly as the October increase to 30 clinical pathways got closer.  We have been discussing this issue over the last few weeks with the Department [...]

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An evaluation of oral anticoagulant safety indicators by community pharmacies in England has been published in the pharmacy MDPI journal. As part of the Pharmacy Quality Scheme (PQS) in 2021/22 and 2023/24 community pharmacy teams participated in two audits to understand the impact pharmacy teams have on improving anticoagulant safety. Approximately 11,000 community pharmacy teams [...]

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