Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee

February CPN is now online

The February edition of PSNC’s Community Pharmacy News is now available. This month’s CPN features: Audit head start – Get...

RSPH call for a further expansion of HLPs

The Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) has published Reducing Premature Mortality: the role of community pharmacies, which calls for...

Health & Care Review

Keeping up with all the latest developments in health and care policy could almost be a full time job and...

Is your pharmacy team checking prescription exemption status?

Pharmacy contractors may be aware of recent news articles and media coverage of the NHS’ increased activity around the checking of prescription...

Flu vaccine effectiveness report shows early use of antivirals even more important for vulnerable patients

It has been widely reported by the media that the flu vaccine has provided low protection this winter due to...

Essential Small Pharmacy arrangements: PSNC update and FAQs

With just a few weeks until the nationally agreed financial support available for Essential Small Pharmacies (ESP) comes to an...

Health & Care Review

Keeping up with all the latest developments in health and care policy could almost be a full time job and...

NCSO/price concession February 2015 (updated)

February 2015 The Department of Health granted the following price concessions for February 2015: Drug name Pack size Price concession Digoxin...

Community pharmacy manifesto engaging MPs across the UK

As the political parties’ election campaigns pick up the pace, pharmacy teams across the UK are using the Community Pharmacy...

Support materials published for drug driving legislation change

New drug driving legislation is coming into force on 2nd March 2015 and the government awareness campaign to promote the...

Get ready for the national audit

An English national audit of emergency supplies was agreed as part of the 2014/15 funding settlement and will take place over...

New contractual requirement to commence from March

The new contractual requirement for community pharmacy contractors and their teams to advise appropriate patients about the benefits of the...