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 The Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) is conducting a consultation on the update of the professional standards for error reporting and are looking for views to ensure the standards are current, clear, relevant, and fit for purpose: The ‘Professional standards for the reporting, learning, sharing, taking action and review of incidents’ are being reviewed in collaboration [...]

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The new, imposed NHS (Pharmaceutical and Local Pharmaceutical Services) (PLPS) Regulations 2013 come into force tomorrow, 25 May 2023, and introduce:  a ‘notification’ procedure for 100-hour pharmacies to reduce their total weekly core opening hours to no less than 72 hours, subject to various requirements;   a notification procedure for introducing or changing rest breaks, by [...]

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It will soon be time for community pharmacy owners to verify their NHS Profile Manager profile information. Ahead of the 30th June 2023 deadline, we would like to remind members 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. [...]

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Contractors (including head office staff) and community pharmacists have one month left to participate in an interview to share their views on the Quality Payments Scheme (QPS) (the previous name for the Pharmacy Quality Scheme (PQS)) and the PQS. ICF (an independent research consultancy) and the University of Manchester are carrying out the evaluation. The [...]

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The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has today (24/05/2023) granted the following list of price concessions for May 2023: Drug Pack size Price concession Amoxicillin 125mg/5ml oral suspension sugar free 100 £3.42 Amoxicillin 250mg/5ml oral suspension sugar free 100 £3.50 Atorvastatin 20mg tablets 28 £1.56 Bimatoprost 100micrograms/ml eye drops 3 £3.99 Clarithromycin 250mg/5ml oral [...]

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