The Government has rejected the workforce plan for pharmacy in response to the Health and Social Care Committee’s report. It claims they do not agree with the recommendations for a workforce plan specific to pharmacy however they do want to improve the pharmacy workforce overall.
The Windsor Framework was published in late February, and was hoped to be the long awaited resolution to problems that existed with the Northern Ireland Protocol, particularly in relation to movement of goods.
Pholcodine containing cough and cold medication is being taken off the shelves in UK pharmacies amidst safety fears.
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) has officially re-joined the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP).
The GPhC has made comments that ‘Pharmacists working in Online settings have forgotten what they learned in community’. This comment has come on the back of a huge rise in the number of online pharmacies opening over the last few years and the risk of patient safety from these pharmacies rising.
A lot of people have been affected by the Norovirus this winter but in particular there has been a 66% rise in confirmed cases which is higher than the five-year average prior to the pandemic.
The Company Chemists Association (CCA) has urged that the NHS should immediately commission services which allow prescribing pharmacists to develop a more clinical role in community pharmacy, utilising their prescribing skills more.
On January 19th 2023, Lloydspharmacy has announced that it will be withdrawing all its instore pharmacies in Sainsbury’s.
Mr Barclay, the UK health secretary, in a statement to the parliament, has said that the government will set out a new strategy to tackle six main health conditions which are burdening England’s healthcare system.
66% of community pharmacists have admitted to experiencing forms of abuse from the public, being over worked, burnt out, suffering from poor mental health and not getting sufficient breaks and protected time for learning as found by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s (RPS) workforce wellbeing survey.
