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Quality Payments: NSAID audit now available
November 21, 2018
Specialist Pharmacy Service has published the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) audit, which community pharmacy contractors will need to complete if they intend...
Funding Webinar Available on Demand
November 8, 2018
Community pharmacy contractors can now access an online recording of PSNC’s recent webinar on the 2018/19 funding settlement. The webinar...
Accuracy checking pharmacy technician programme
November 8, 2018
CPPE will be extending the ACPT programme to include all community pharmacy technicians across England. The CPPE Accuracy checking pharmacy technician...
Quality Payments: DoS Profile Updater now available
November 8, 2018
The Directory of Services (DoS) Profile Updater, which community pharmacy contractors will need to use to meet the DoS quality criterion...
Medicinal cannabis available on NHS prescriptions
November 8, 2018
Changes to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001 will reclassified cannabis-based medicines from Schedule 1 to Schedule 2 Controlled Drugs...
Urgent action required: Change to 150mcg AAI validation protocol
November 8, 2018
The Department of Health & Social Care has changed the validation protocol that community pharmacies must follow before issuing adrenaline...
Further support for FMD
October 27, 2018
There are now fewer than 16 weeks to go until the Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) comes into force on 9th...
National clinical audit 2018/19 – Flu vaccination for people with diabetes
October 25, 2018
Pharmacy Contractors must undertake a clinical audit each year, the topic of which they choose. In addition to this pharmacy-based audit,...
Action on Sugar Week 12-18th November
October 8, 2018
Action on Sugar Week raises awareness of the health impacts of consuming excess sugar (and calories) and educating the public...