When operating a pharmacy, the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) will come and inspect you against the pharmacy standards, do you know what evidence you will need to present to demonstrate how your pharmacy adheres to the standards?
Now we have started 2024, this blog highlights the common trends identified from inspections carried out in 2023.
On May 25 this year, the NHS terms of service were amended, allowing 100-hour pharmacies to reduce their opening hours from 100 to 72 hours.
Does this mean that Scottish pharmacies have hit the jackpot!?! Well, of course not, this is to ‘ease pressures’ currently faced by pharmacies, and numbers can be very misleading.
The government has just announced that it will be funding a pharmacy common ailment scheme in England as part of a huge £645 million investment for the pharmacy industry over the course of the next two years.
The Department of Heath and Social Care has said there will be a ‘reduced’ Pharmacy Quality Scheme for 2023-2024 than previously planned with much fewer elements to the scheme than originally anticipated.
