The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) has published a news story, on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care, highlighting that from 1st June 2025 pharmacy owners who have not yet claimed for Pharmacy First consultations carried out in March, April and May 2025 must claim these by 11.59pm on 30th June 2025 [...]
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NHS England has announced that the community pharmacy technician apprenticeship programme has launched for 2025. The programme supports Pre-registration Trainee Pharmacy Technicians (PTPTs) to complete a 24-month apprenticeship in community pharmacy. Funding offer and application support Successful applicants will receive a training contribution of £15,053 per trainee, per year for two years to support their [...]
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NHS England has opened the procurement process for pharmacies that wish to provide the COVID-19 vaccination service from their healthcare premises from 1st October 2025. This process only applies to: Pharmacies not already contracted to provide the service and wishing to apply to provide it from 1st October 2025; and Pharmacies already contracted to provide [...]
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Pharmacy owners should be aware that the Pharmacy First Clinical Pathways band assignments and monthly caps for June 2025 are published on the NHSBSA website. Information for all future months will be published here. The list published by NHSBSA indicates the band assignment and monthly cap for each pharmacy by ODS code. If a pharmacy [...]
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As we move into the warmer months, pharmacy teams may start to see people presenting with tick bites and potentially symptoms of Lyme disease. While tick bites/Lyme disease is not treatable under the Pharmacy First clinical pathway for infected insect bites, with patients needing to be signposted onwards, patients may present with a tick bite [...]
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