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UK’s first private pharmacy COVID-19 vaccine service launched …
WEBFeb 1, 2024 · Pharmacies can now sign up to offer the UK’s “first” private COVID-19 vaccination service as of today, Pharmadoctor revealed to C+D today (February 1). The pharmacy service provider said that COVID-19 vaccination stock will be available to its more than 8,000 partner pharmacies by April 1 “at the latest” and that it will “help ...
Private pharmacy RSV and dengue fever vaccine services launch in …
WEBOct 15, 2023 · Common but highly contagious respiratory virus RSV can be indistinguishable from a cold in healthy adults and older children but can lead to severe respiratory illness like bronchiolitis and pneumonia in infants, young children, the elderly and those with compromised immune systems, it added.
NHSE to fund 530 community pharmacy technician apprenticeships
WEBSep 6, 2024 · NHSE chief pharmacist David Webb has announced a big boost to funded training places for pharmacy technicians in community pharmacies at the APTUK annual conference. James Stent. The funding marks a “transition” from a previous focus on “secondary care and primary care networks”. NHS England (NHSE) will fund 530 apprenticeships in ...
Pharmacists no longer required to take flu jab refresher every
WEBAug 17, 2022 · Pharmacists who administer flu vaccines will no longer need to undertake face-to-face refresher training on vaccine technique every three years, the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee (PSNC) has announced. Eliza Loukou @CandDEliza. Individual pharmacists can now make a decision on when it is best to attend refresher vaccination training.
Boots trainee pharmacist pay set to increase by up to a third
WEBFeb 16, 2024 · This April’s increase will see trainee pharmacists paid: £12.69 for trainees in Zone A in England/Northern Ireland. £13.79 for trainees in Zone B in England. £14.05 for trainees in Zone C in England. The joint statement said that the “increase will be applied centrally in the April pay run”. The new rate will “show in the benefits ...
Asda pays pharmacists incentive to accept reduced hours - C+D
WEBJun 19, 2024 · Pharmacists that accept the new contract will receive a one-off “pharmacist payment”, a spokesperson for Asda confirmed. The spokesperson told C+D today (June 19) that the supermarket was “proposing some changes” to its pharmacy operations "following a recent change in pharmacy opening hours across [its] estate”.
UPDATED: Pharmacy services disrupted by 'global IT outages
WEBJul 19, 2024 · EPS affected. Community Pharmacy England (CPE) said that “some users of the community pharmacy EMIS ProScript electronic prescription service (EPS) system are also being affected”. “EMIS ProScript has advised its pharmacy users that it will issue further updates as it works to fix these issues,” it added. The negotiator said that ...
Pharmacy2U and Royal Mail launch NHS prescription deliveries …
WEBJul 7, 2022 · Pharmacy2U has partnered with Royal Mail’s new division, Royal Mail Health, to offer free NHS prescription deliveries across the UK “reliably and safely”, the companies have announced, just days before planned strike action by Royal Mail managers.
'Why I became an independent prescriber, then GP pharmacist'
WEBAug 2, 2017 · Avicenna pharmacy services manager Krish Patel explains why he made the leap into independent prescribing – and then into a GP practice. I have found the pharmacist independent prescribing course to be an eye-opening experience. I applied for the programme at Medway School of Pharmacy because I was searching for a challenge that would allow ...