Provision of medicine
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Government consults on giving pharmacists powers to substitute drugs during shortages
Pharmacists could be given new powers to switch patients’ prescriptions without consulting a doctor in the event of a national medicines shortage.
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Pharmacists need not dispense European prescriptions after no-deal Brexit, argues General Pharmaceutical Council
Pharmacists need not dispense prescriptions issued in another European country in the event of a ‘no-deal’ Brexit, the General Pharmaceutical Council has argued.
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Mobile apps could offer cheap route to FMD compliance
Smartphones or tablet devices could be used by pharmacists instead of scanners to implement the Falsified Medicines Directive, manufacturers have claimed.
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Pharmacy2U to open 7.5m-items-per-month dispensing facility
Online pharmacy Pharmacy2U is to open a new dispensing facility that will enable it to increase its dispensing capacity to 7.5 million items a month, more than 16 times its current capacity.
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Is it time for community pharmacy to let go of dispensing? Subscription
The conversation about whether the days of pharmacists handing out white bags will soon be over was the most polarising debate of the FIP conference.
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Online pharmacy offers GPs free use of video consultation app
NHS GP practices have been offered free use of video consultation technology by a firm that produces a prescription app.
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'If you fight technology, you will lose' — pharmacists debate ditching dispensing
In the impassioned debate at the 2018 International Pharmaceutical Federation Congress in Glasgow, Darrin Baines, professor in health economics at Bournemouth University, argued that in order to keep its place in the healthcare system, community pharmacy needs to be the “go-to place for health technology”.
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Pharmacy contracts: where the money goes Subscription
Funding for the national community pharmacy contracts in England, Scotland and Wales is distributed differently. Here is a breakdown of how the three countries fund pharmacy services.
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Community pharmacy patient safety errors increase by 64%
Mistakes made by community pharmacists at work rocketed by 64% between April 2018 and June 2018 according to latest figures compiled by the National Pharmacy Association (NPA).
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A failure to learn from our mistakes puts patients at risk Subscription
Collective amnesia in the NHS means that major issues affecting patient safety, such as medication errors, are not being adequately addressed, writes David Cousins.
