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Pharmacy owners have until midnight on Wednesday (11th December 2024) 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 [...]

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In a debate in Parliament, MPs raised their concerns about the impact of the 2024 Budget on community pharmacies. Joe Robertson MP, Conservative member of the Health and Social Care Committee, quoted CPE analysis that these measures will ‘cost pharmacists £50 million, even after taking into account the employment allowance’. Shadow Chancellor, Mel Stride MP [...]

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The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has via its Central Alerting System (CAS) published a letter on 3 December 2024 advising that due to increasing flu levels in the community, Prescribers working in primary care may now prescribe, and community pharmacists may now supply antiviral medicines (oseltamivir and zanamivir) for the prophylaxis and [...]

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Last month Community Pharmacy England and Healthwatch England launched an online Pharmacy First patient survey that pharmacy owners can direct patients to after receiving the service. The aim of this collaboration is to collect patient feedback on the service to help inform service improvements and to help to quantify the value of the service to [...]

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NHS England has announced that from December 2024, the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) will be extended to Detained Estate healthcare services in England. This extension will allow prescribers working in prisons to issue EPS ‘To Take Out’ (TTO) and urgent prescriptions electronically to community pharmacies, removing the need for the use of paper FP10 forms. [...]

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