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The Specials Laboratory in Northumberland recently held a graduation ceremony for its staff completing the National Pharmacy Association’s (NPA) NVQ course in Pharmacy Services.
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Amidst speculation that the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s Pre Budget Report will announce cuts to the NHS IT programme, the National Pharmacy Association (NPA) has made urgent representations to the Treasury and the Department of Health.
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Pharmacy Voice has picked up positive feedback from the pharmacy frontline about the New Medicine Service, but warns that consent issues are deterring patients from enrolling.
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Rt Hon Andrew Lansley MP today visited a newly opened community pharmacy in his Cambridgeshire constituency.
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The All-Party Pharmacy Group (APPG) has facilitated a private meeting between the major pharmacy bodies and key individuals from the Labour Party Shadow Health team.
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The National Pharmacy Association (NPA) has set a date for the next Ask Your Pharmacist (AYP) public awareness week: 7-13 November 2011.
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Pharmacies across the country are to be invited to become Healthy Living Pharmacy Pathfinder sites. Developed and implemented by NHS Portsmouth, Healthy Living Pharmacies (HLP) are making a real difference to the health and wellbeing of their communities by delivering high-quality public health services such as stopping smoking, weight loss, contraception and sexual health and advice on alcohol. Download the pathfinders criteria document.
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The NPA’s Board of Management has appointed Bharat Patel as chairman of the association. Bharat joined the NPA Board in 2006, representing NPA members in the East Anglia region. He operates a healthcare business comprising two pharmacies and a purpose built nursing home.
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First year pharmacy students from Brighton University have completed the NPA ‘University’ Interact course. Students, who received 93% or over on the Interact course, were awarded with certificates at a prize ceremony on Monday 18 May.
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The National Pharmacy Association (NPA) has responded to the new NHS prescribing recommendations which have been published as part of a Government drive to achieve £20 billion savings in the health service by 2013. The National Prescribing Centre guidance, Key Therapeutic Topics 2010/11, asks GPs to revise prescribing ‘in the context of a challenging medium term financial position.’
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The National Pharmacy Association (NPA) welcomes the clear acknowledgement of community pharmacy’s public health role in the Healthy Lives Healthy People white paper published today. However, the association warns that people in deprived circumstances could get left behind if new commissioning arrangements fail.
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The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has announced a package of measures to promote the safer use of codeine and dihydrocodeine containing analgesics. This follows a thorough review of the benefits and risks of these medicines.
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The National Pharmacy Association has responded to the NICE consultation on contraceptive services for socially disadvantaged young people.
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The NPA has responded to the General Pharmaceutical Council’s (GPhC) consultation on setting fees. The NPA believes that setting the fees needs to be an open and transparent process which ensures fees are fair to registrants and enable the GPhC to carry out its functions.
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The Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education (CPPE) and the National Pharmacy Association (NPA) are pleased to announce the launch of Communicating locally – a new local solutions resource designed to help community pharmacists, GPs and trainee GPs to improve how they communicate with their colleagues.
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A survey by Pharmacy Voice shows how people define ‘public’ and ‘private’ in the context of health service provision. The results come on the same day the BMA’s Special Representative Meeting considers whether to oppose government plans to extend ‘any willing provider’ delivery of NHS services.
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The National Pharmacy Association (NPA) and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS), in close collaboration with the Department of Health have developed a resource to support community pharmacies improve the care of people with diabetes.
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Pharmacy Voice today responded to comments by Dr Clare Gerada that so-called ‘worried well’ people who get vaccinated for flu are partly responsible for a shortage of flu vaccines within the NHS.
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The NPA has responded to the General Pharmaceutical Council’s (GPhC) consultation on Education Procedures and Registration criteria. The NPA questions the remit of the consultation and the proposals, which could have significant impact on community pharmacists, registered pharmacy technicians and training institutes.
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The National Pharmacy Association today welcomes the decision to provide emergency contraception and sexual health advice free of charge at pharmacies in Wales, and called for it to be provided throughout the UK.
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