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Financial Management & Funding

NPA: Scottish Government must compensate pharmacies left in “financial chaos” by faulty system

The NPA says some pharmacies are facing shortfalls of tens of thousands of pounds due to faulty payment system.

26 Jul 2024 , 3 Min Article

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Medicines

Labour must treat pharma wholesalers as business rates ‘special case’

The Healthcare Distribution Association said medicines distribution companies should not be “conflated" with other sectors.

25 Jul 2024 , 1 Min Article

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Business environment

NPA urges patients to be calm in pharmacies as global IT outage hits NHS

The outage has left pharmacies struggling to access prescriptions, which efforts to supply medicines.

19 Jul 2024 , 1 Min Article

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Public health

Starmer must appoint a medicines tsar to solve shortages, says NPA

The National Pharmacy Association has warned that the supply chain's "robustness" needs testing because patients’ health is suffering.

12 Jul 2024 , 2 Min Article

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People

Victoria Steele to leave Hallo healthcare group

Adam Neilson is the new superintendent pharmacist for Lloydspharmacy Healthcare Services and will lead the professional standards team.

01 Jul 2024 , 1 Min Article

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Public health

Closures have created ‘pharmacy deserts’ across England, data shows

The largest number of people per pharmacy was in the South-East with 6,024, followed by the East of England with 5,327.

01 Jul 2024 , 2 Min Article

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Business environment

‘Strong quarter’ for Boots as health services grow in popularity

Thirteenth consecutive quarter of market share growth for the multiple.

28 Jun 2024 , 1 Min Article

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Contract

Two-thirds of pharmacies slash opening hours due to funding squeeze

NPA research reveals impact of funding crisis as pharmacies across the UK take part in day of action.

20 Jun 2024 , 3 Min Article

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Pharmacy team

Numark chairman questions NPA’s June 20 loss-making claim

Harry McQuillan said the average UK pharmacy was not loss making in the last third of the month.

12 Jun 2024 , 2 Min Article

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Financial Management & Funding

Labour’s small business plan will reduce pharmacies’ burden, says NPA chief

NPA chief executive Paul Rees welcomed Labour’s pledge to overhaul the business rates system to rejuvenate the high street.

10 Jun 2024 , 3 Min Article

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Medicines

Health boards struggle to monitor dispensing fraud risk in Wales, says report

An Audit Wales pilot looked at potential “risks around fraud and cost” relating to “expensive items”, specials and “higher cost formulations”.

07 Jun 2024 , 5 Min Article

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Clinical services

Pharmacy First CPD: Acute sinusitis

This is the latest in our series of CPD modules designed to support pharmacists to manage common conditions and deliver England’s new Pharmacy First service. It will be useful for community pharmacists responding to patients 12 years and over with acute sinusitis.

01 Mar 2024 , 20 Min Module

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Clinical services

Pharmacy First Toolkit: Sore throat

The Pharmacy First service in England allows community pharmacy teams to complete episodes of care for seven common conditions. This toolkit provides an overview of the clinical pathway and PGDs used to deliver consultations for acute sore throat plus essential information on the assessment, diagnosis and management of this common condition.

26 Feb 2024 , 30 Min Module

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Depression service pilot gets approval from first patients

Promising early results from NMS depression pilot revealed: latest data.

16 Oct 2023 , 3 Min Article

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Management, leadership or both?

So, do people follow you, or work for you? Find out more with this CPD module.

01 Mar 2022 , 60 Min Module

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Influencing one on one

This module could be useful in many situations, whether you’re working with the pharmacy team, non-pharmacist area managers, colleagues or commissioners – or even in the consultation room.

31 Jan 2022 , 60 Min Module