NHS England, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and other partners in the GP Workforce 10 Point Plan are organising a series of webinars and events to help GP practices and pharmacists understand more about its clinical pharmacists in general practice pilot. Launched on 7 July, this innovative new scheme will introduce around 250 clinical pharmacists into general […]

The NHS will today launch its national public awareness campaign in a bid to persuade people to seek advice early from their local pharmacist if they are ‘feeling under the weather’. The campaign, ‘feeling under the weather’ has been launched to encourage people, particularly older people and those with existing respiratory conditions, to nip health […]

Delivered by around 100 senior pharmacy professionals and primarily focused on hospital care, Specialist Pharmacy Services (SPS), underpin the safe, effective and efficient use of medicines across the country.  This review, led by Dr Keith Ridge CBE, Chief Pharmaceutical Officer, sets out a way to provide SPS in a safe, sustainable and equitable manner. The […]

The necessary changes have been made to The Pharmaceutical Services (Advanced and Enhanced Services) (England) Directions 2013 to allow the following things to happen: The New Medicines Service (NMS) is being extended to enable community pharmacies to continue to provide this service through to the 31st March 2014. At the request of NHS England, Department […]

NHS England is seeking the opinion of the community pharmacy sector in the next round of the national ‘Call to Action’ about the future shape of the NHS England will be consulting with pharmacists, their teams and, employees as well as the broader healthcare sector on their opinions and thoughts on how to help shape […]

NHS England’s most senior doctors today welcomed the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s “Future Models of Care” report, setting out the much wider role pharmacists can and should play in treating and advising patients. NHS England is currently working with patients and clinicians across the country to set out how the NHS should be organised in future […]

From 1 April 2013 NHS England is responsible for authorising prescribing contractors to use the Electronic Prescription Service. This responsibility is included in paragraph 39A of Schedule 6 of the GMS Contract Regulations. NHS England hereby authorise the following sites to use the Electronic Prescription Service. All prescribing sites that are already using EPS Release […]