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Community Pharmacy England Chief Executive Janet Morrison met with the new Pharmacy Minister, Dame Andrea Leadsom MP, this week. Dame Andrea is Parliamentary Under Secretary of State responsible for Primary Care at the Department of Health. Janet talked to the Minister about a range of critical topics including: Pharmacy First: including the sector’s enthusiasm for this [...]

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A new service finder, on the NHS website, lets members of the public and healthcare professionals search for a pharmacy that offers the contraceptive pill without a prescription as part of the Pharmacy Contraception Service. The tool also provides initial information on scenarios where individuals can access a supply at the pharmacy. The service finder [...]

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It will soon be time for pharmacy owners to verify their NHS Profile Manager profile information. Ahead of the 31st December 2023 deadline, we would like to remind pharmacy owners of the need for you to update NHS Profile Manager to ensure that your pharmacy’s NHS website and Directory of Services (DoS) profile information is kept up-to-date. The Pharmacy Terms of [...]

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Pharmacy owners and their teams can now watch an on-demand recording of Community Pharmacy England’s webinar on the expansion of the Pharmacy Contraception Service. Held earlier this week, over 600 people tuned in to watch our ‘Pharmacy Contraception Service: Initiating Contraception’ webinar. The first in our series of webinars* aimed at assisting the pharmacy sector [...]

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Pharmacy owners providing the autumn/winter 2023/24 COVID-19 vaccination service are reminded that the last day for national booking service (NBS) booked appointments for COVID-19 and NHS flu vaccinations is 14th December 2023. Sites should not post NBS clinics after this date as it will be closed to bookings on 15th December 2023. The system will [...]

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