Pharmacy owners using the National Booking Service (NBS) to offer appointments for adult flu and COVID-19 vaccinations can now post appointments within the system, ahead of patients being able to use NBS to book appointments from 1st September 2025, for vaccination from 1st October 2025. The use of NBS for flu vaccinations is a voluntary [...]
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NHS England has today published the Pharmacy Quality Scheme (PQS) Antimicrobial stewardship – Pharmacy First consultations – Clinical Audit. Completion of the audit, as well as sharing anonymised data with NHS England and incorporating any learnings from the audit into future practice by the end of 31st March 2026, is a quality criterion in the [...]
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Community Pharmacy England will be holding a webinar about the new Childhood Flu Vaccination Service, in collaboration with NHS England, on Wednesday 20th August at 7.30pm. On the night Alastair Buxton, Director of NHS Services at Community Pharmacy England, and colleagues from NHS England, will explain how the service will operate and help community pharmacy [...]
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Registration for the new Children’s Flu Vaccination Service for children aged 2-3 years is now open on the NHS Business Services Authority’s Manage Your Service (MYS) portal. As announced last week, this is one-season trial of the new Advanced service and pharmacy owners that choose to provide the service will be able to commence vaccinating eligible [...]
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Pharmacy owners are reminded that the claim period for Pharmacy First has been reduced to one month and therefore claims for Pharmacy First consultations carried out in June 2025 must be claimed on the MYS portal by 11.59pm on 31st July 2025. This change to the claim window, follows the announcement as part of the contractual [...]
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