New pharmacy advice service to support care home residents launches across Scotland
A new service which offers consultations and advice for minor illnesses is being launched in community pharmacies across Scotland.
The service will target care homes...
DHSC extends SSP for fluoxetine 40mg capsules
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has extended serious shortage protocol (SSP) for fluoxetine 40mg capsules (SSP06).
The SSP for these capsules has...
Former health minister Jackie Doyle-Price elected as chair of All-Party Pharmacy Group
Former minister of state for health Jackie Doyle-Price MP has been elected chair of the All-Party Pharmacy Group.
A former civil servant and Conservative Party...
UK boosts funding to ward off winter Covid-19 wave
Prime minister Boris Johnson is to pour £3 billion into England's National Health Service (NHS) to try to ward off any resurgence of the...
Three in five pharmacy staff worried about Covid-19 threat: PDA
Nearly 60 per cent of the community pharmacy staff feel anxious about the threat of Covid-19 at their workplace, a latest survey by the...
Pharmacists in midst of ‘greatest public health crisis in history’: Scottish health chief
Professor Jason Leitch, Scotland’s National Clinical Director of Healthcare Quality & Improvement, has praised pharmacists for reaching out to vulnerable people during the coronavirus...
Early-stage trial data on AstraZeneca vaccine expected next week: Lancet
Early-stage human trial data on a vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University will be published on July 20, The Lancet medical journal said on...
Moderna results show virus vaccine safe
Moderna Inc's experimental vaccine for Covid-19 showed it was safe and provoked immune responses in all 45 healthy volunteers in an ongoing early-stage study, US researchers...
Positive news on Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine could come soon: Report
Positive news on initial trials of the University of Oxford's potential Covid-19 vaccine that has been licensed to AstraZeneca could be announced as soon as Thursday...
Ferring recalls all strengths of desmopressin nasal spray Â
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Limited has recalled all unexpired stock of all strengths of desmopressin nasal spray from pharmacies and wholesalers.
The decision to recall the product...
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