PQS ‘aspiration payment’ window is now open
Community pharmacy contractors can claim aspiration payment before October 9 through the Manage Your Service (MYS) portal as payment window for the Pharmacy Quality...
Government warns of possible return to lockdown
Government on Friday (Sept. 18) warned it could re-impose a national lockdown across England to counter the coronavirus pandemic, as rates of hospitalisation double...
North west and London become new hot spots as Covid-19 cases in England rise by 6,000 per day, official estimate shows
New cases of Covid-19 in England rose by around 6,000 per day in the week to Sept. 10, almost double the rate of the...
’90-minute DnaNudge virus test is accurate’
A new Covid-19 test known as DnaNudge that gives results in just over an hour and which requires no laboratory was accurate in almost...
Researchers trial inhaled versions of Covid-19 vaccines
Inhaled versions of Covid-19 vaccine candidates developed by Oxford University and Imperial College will be trialled to see if they deliver a localised immune response in the respiratory tract,...
DHSC releases first drug price concessions list for September 2020
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has released the first drug price concessions list for September 2020. The price concessions list released...
Patel puts pharmacy on Oxford university platform as he joins national Covid-19 trial as co-investigator
Senior academic pharmacist Professor Mahendra Patel has advocated greater involvement of community pharmacies in recruiting volunteers from ‘underrepresented’ minority communities for a ground-breaking Covid-19...
Pharmacist’s timely intervention helps to avert risk of wrong usage of inhaler
A pharmacist’s timely reporting to the Yellow Card scheme has helped the MHRA and an inhaler manufacturer to improve the safety information to avert...
MHRA issues latest FMD drug alert
The Medicines and Health products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has issued a Class II falsified medicines directive (FMD) drug alert for a list of products...
Community Pharmacy offer to make London healthiest city in the world; minister confirms GP CPCS to be rolled out in November
London’s local pharmaceutical committees (LPCs) have come together to launch a community pharmacy offer to keep Londoners healthy.
The Pharmacy Strategy 2020, launched today (September...
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