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The DHSC has been urged to introduce national service specifications for smoking cessation and EHC.

The NPA says Ask Your Pharmacist Week will remind the public about the community pharmacist consultation service.

The facility will help students enact the types of patient interaction they are likely to face as qualified pharmacists.

The DHSC has ordered 400,000 extra doses of the adult flu vaccine for the 2019-20 flu season, it was announced yesterday.

"A number of pharmacies" are making incorrectly endorsed claims for medicines dispensed through the shortage protocols.

The RPS calls on the government to ensure all pharmacists have access to NHS-funded mental health support services.

Pharmacies can expect an announcement on national roll-out of EPS 4 “in the not too distant future”, NHS Digital said.

The deputy chief pharmaceutical officer was put on the spot at the Pharmacy Show.

The question of whether the new settlement is a good deal or a bad one is “irrelevant,” the panel said.

Community pharmacists must resist the urge to compete with one another and collaborate, the Pharmacy Show heard.

Guidance to help LPCS and pharmacy contractors engage with primary care networks is being issued today.

BAME women can expect to earn 16 per cent less than males, the Pharmacy Show heard.

NHSE wants as many contractors as possible signed up to the service by October 29.

“It is to us as a sector” to discuss issues like consolidation and the Pharmacy Access Scheme, he argued.

The CMA alleges Aspen agreed to pay Amilco and Tiofarma to stay out of the UK market for Addison’s Disease medicine.

The GPhC received 16 whistleblowing disclosures between 1 April 2018 and 31 March 2019, a report reveals.

Pharmacists have been granted powers to dispense an “alternative strength or pharmaceutical form” of fluoxetine.

The campaign will consist of TV, radio and digital advertising supported by search and partnership activity.

The suite of FP10 prescription forms which are used for primary care prescribing in England are being updated.

The Pharmacists’ Defence Association says a fifth of medicines have been affected by shortages in the past three months.