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Pharma’s Market: First-time buys and the strength of the Midlands

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What has happened in the community pharmacy market recently?

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‘Urgent need’ for pharmacists to support carers, says FIP

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The international body has called for "stronger action to support and empower women and informal carers through pharmacist-led care"

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‘Get the evidence’: MPs call for pharmacy to support vac uptake

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In a Westminster debate on vaccination rates, one MP asked pharmacy minister Diana Johnson whether she will ensure the NHS “acts before more children pay the price” #Pharmacy #CommunityPharmacy

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Over 90% of pharmacies say police response to crime is ‘insufficient’

https://t.co/aH4HAHS1vl

The National Pharmacy Association (NPA) has called for a “tougher response” from the police and security funding for pharmacies as nearly a third of respondents say they did not report incidents over “concerns about response time”

The NPA shared historic footage of its members' pharmacies being attacked or having items stolen #Pharmacy #CommunityPharmacy

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CPPE launches heart failure training programme

https://t.co/rEKu04WKdN

The programme is designed to increase pharmacists' "knowledge, skills and confidence in supporting people living with heart failure"

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Include locums and part-timers in Scots funded IP training, urges PDA

https://t.co/L8tYAZrkVj

In Scotland, only pharmacists who work 27 hours or more a week in one community pharmacy can get funding to support their IP training

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NHS pilots free blood type testing at @BootsUK pharmacies

https://t.co/qkj54dCaqN

The south London and Birmingham pharmacies will be offering up to 25,000 self-testing kits as the @NHSuk seeks out more donors of Black heritage, as well as O negative and B negative donors #Pharmacy #CommunityPharmacy

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‘Significant disruption’: Healthcare supply chain workers to strike

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Pickers and forklift drivers at Movianto’s Bedford warehouse will go on strike next week, with their union telling C+D the action could last for over a month #Pharmacy #CommunityPharmacy

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Pharmacies deliver quarter of a million MenB vaccines

https://t.co/cTreCUFLsn

NPA chief executive Henry Gregg called on the NHS to make the one-off pharmacy MenB vaccination programme “an annual campaign”

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Pharmacists should play ‘greater role’ in preventing SUDs, says FIP

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The international pharmacy body said pharmacists are "uniquely positioned" to support harm reduction interventions

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Pharmacy First audit and peer discussion added to this year’s Pharmacy Quality Scheme

https://t.co/9EMY6zWzi1

Contractors must submit the consultation records of ten patients seen under Pharmacy First alongside evidence of a peer discussion with a "buddy pharmacist"

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Pharmacy in Person podcast with Adam Somerville

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PDA LGBT+ Network president Adam Somerville tells C+D's Nana Ofori-Atta about being a resident pharmacist, his prescriber ambitions, HIV and PrEP and the plans the LGBT+ Network has for pharmacists #Pharmacy #CommunityPharmacy

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‘Irresponsible’: ASA raps SheMed over Reddit weight loss ad

https://t.co/NN5te2ttej

The ads regulator ruled that SheMed’s ad promoted GLP-1s to the public and was "likely to exploit consumers' insecurities relating to body image and weight"

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NHSE announces funding increase for trainee pharmacists

https://t.co/AC6tuag982

Training sites hosting foundation trainee pharmacists will receive £901 more per trainee, while sites employing a PTPT will have their funding increased by £264 per apprentice #Pharmacy #CommunityPharmacy

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Walk-in GP centres ‘undermine’ pharmacies, says RCPharm

https://t.co/qOYinpfhJs

The college said in a statement issued alongside RCGP Scotland and the CSP that the service duplicates the offerings already provided by community pharmacies

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Exclusive: GPhC takes first enforcement action over POM ads

https://t.co/nDGgtvoElz

The ASA told C+D that https://t.co/sNe5NfpFEx, which was recently handed an improvement notice by the GPhC, had “been given ample opportunity to get its house in order”

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UK pharmacists named @FIP_org board members and fellows

https://t.co/HfggtdeWp8

A trio from the @UniofNottingham pharmacy school staff have been elected to new roles and awarded fellowships #Pharmacy #CommunityPharmacy

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‘Historic’: Pharmacies to offer free cholesterol checkups from autumn

https://t.co/xl9DJoulHn

The IPA said the rollout to "around 100" pharmacies is a "common-sense move the NHS should be making"

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Behind the counter: Wellington Pharmacy, Somerset

https://t.co/aAdxE5e5mh

C+D visits one of the new Allied Pharmacies branches it bought from Jhoots last year, and finds out how it’s performing and whether the local MP and campaign group want another pharmacy to support it #Pharmacy #CommunityPharmacy

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IPA calls for accelerated shingles vaccine rollout after study findings

https://t.co/GnrXeRps2d

A new study led by the University of Oxford has found that the current shingles vaccine reduces the risk of major cardiovascular events