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Self Care Week addresses wellbeing in lockdown

This year's Self Care Week is promoting the importance of looking after wellbeing during the second lockdown. 

16 Nov 2020

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Practice pharmacists to be freed up for Covid jabs

Pharmacists working in general practice are likely to find themselves deployed as part of the workforce that will vaccinate the population against the coronavirus.

16 Nov 2020

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Ridge: Only use dexamethasone for oxygen patients

Dexamethasone should be used to treat patients with critical or severe Covid-19 but not patients with ‘non-severe’ illness, Keith Ridge says. 

16 Nov 2020

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Boots creates 30k 'quiet shopping slots' for key workers

Boots customers who wish to pick up their items when the store is less busy are now able to book ‘quiet shopping slots,’ the multiple has said.

16 Nov 2020

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PSNC clarifies DH comments on Covid-19 payments

The PSNC has issued a clarification concerning comments made by a Department of Health spokesperson on Covid-19 funding for pharmacies.

13 Nov 2020

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Aspirin could protect against severe Covid-19

Taking aspirin may reduce the need for admission to an intensive care unit (ICU) and in-hospital mortality among people hospitalised with Covid-19.

13 Nov 2020

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NHSE: Some pharmacies will 'lead Covid vaccination sites'

NHS England & Improvement has said it will “very soon” release details of how some community pharmacies could “lead vaccination sites”.

13 Nov 2020

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All pharmacy staff to be tested twice a week for Covid-19

Pharmacy teams are included in NHSE&I’s new plans to send health workers home testing kits for coronavirus twice a week, PNN has learned. 

10 Nov 2020

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Covid testing: where are we?

Guidance on the tests pharmacy can offer keeps changing, but its scope could be widening

10 Nov 2020

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The Covid diaries

My partner, who works in the business, has tested positive...

09 Nov 2020

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NPA "won't stop lobbying for funding support"

NPA chair Andrew Lane said the body will not give up lobbying the government for more funding to support independents.

09 Nov 2020

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Most people would turn to pharmacy for Covid vaccine

The majority of people would go to a community pharmacy for a Covid vaccine, according to an NPA survey.

09 Nov 2020

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NHS in urgent talks with PSNC on Covid jabs

Pfizer/BioNTech says its vaccine candidate is more than 90 per cent effective in preventing Covid-19.

09 Nov 2020

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7 in 10 people visit pharmacies during pandemic

The “vast majority” of the UK’s adult population has visited a pharmacy since March, the National Pharmacy Association has said. 

06 Nov 2020

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Minister thanks pharmacies but is silent on funding

Pharmacy minister Jo Churchill expressed her gratitude to community pharmacies for their work during the Covid-19 pandemic. 

 

06 Nov 2020

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Over 1.7m reached by Test and Trace claims Government

The government claims over 1.7 million people have been reached through its test and trace programme.

 

05 Nov 2020

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