HLP Level 1: Compliance visits, free training & Quality Payments

Compliance visits The Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) is conducting compliance visits of pharmacies that have achieved Healthy Living...

New bite-sized guides to FMD

We’ve produced bite-sized guides to help pharmacies choose their FMD supplier and register with SecurMed UK, the national medicines verification...

GMLPC response to national funding settlement 2018/19

PSNC has published details of the 2018/19 funding settlement that has been agreed with the Department of Health & Social...

EpiPen / adrenaline auto-injector guidance

It is crucial that all pharmacies are aware of the new national guidance for EpiPens, EpiPen Junior and other adrenaline...

FMD: Read our briefing & book onto our event

The Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) comes into effect across Europe on 9th February 2019 and will affect the way that...

Quality Payments (Feb 2019): Summary of key changes & action required

There are some significant changes to Quality Payments for February 2019, including new criteria and staff training requirements. That means...

Adam’s CEO Blog

Hello, I’m Adam Irvine, the CEO for Greater Manchester Local Pharmaceutical Committee (GMLPC). We are the largest LPC in the...

Pharmacist Naz Iqbal: How Rochdale’s Champix & NRT services work

Pharmacist Naz Iqbal, from Carlow Chemists in Middleton, explains how people in Rochdale can access stop-smoking support in their local...

Steven’s story: How Champix helped me quit smoking

Steven Poole, 37, from Middleton, successfully quit smoking nearly three months ago with the help of a tablet called Champix,...

Stoptober: Rochdale’s pioneering Champix service

Pharmacies across Greater Manchester are encouraging smokers to think about quitting this month as part of the national Stoptober campaign,...

Recruiting pre-reg pharmacy trainees through Oriel

We’re producing a series of short articles over the next few months to help pharmacy contractors / employers understand the...

NUMSAS provider update (Sep 2018)

NHS England has produced an update for contractors providing the NHS Urgent Medicine Supply Advanced Service  (NUMSAS). The update confirms...