• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Home
  • News
  • Education
  • Events
  • Interviews
    • Career spotlight
  • Opinion
    • Professional Dilemmas
    • Patient perspective
  • PIPcast
  • Jobs
  • Business Directory

Pharmacy in Practice

EDX/20/1154
Date of prep: December 2020

Prescribing information and
adverse events reporting

For healthcare professionals only

COVID-19 cash injection for NI community pharmacies

27th March 2020 by PIP editor Leave a Comment

 

Health Minister Robin Swann announced additional funding of £10.5million to support the pressures being faced by community pharmacies in Northern Ireland.

 

Speaking following a meeting with representatives of Community Pharmacy Northern Ireland (CPNI), Health Minister Robin Swann said:

 

“The entire health and social care system in Northern Ireland is under severe pressure due to COVID-19.  That pressure is also being felt in community pharmacies by the staff who are working in challenging conditions and dealing with increasing demands for prescriptions.

 

“I want to reassure everyone that supplies of medicines are continually replenished.  There is no need to stockpile.  This creates a pressure on the system that will be felt by the most vulnerable in our society.”

 

Working conditions were also discussed at the meeting and the Minister expressed alarm that some members of the public have been abusive to pharmacy staff.

 

He commented:

 

“This is not acceptable.  Everyone within the health and social care system is working at capacity to provide a service to patients.  They must be allowed to do their work in a safe environment and must have sufficient breaks.  This why pharmacies will now operate different hours and I ask for public support and understanding at this time.”

 

Concluding, the Minister said:

 

“I am aware that patients may be concerned about not being able to access their medicines if self-isolating or unwell.  Some pharmacies may offer a delivery service.  Work is also ongoing to explore how the voluntary and community sector might help but in the meantime I call on the people of Northern Ireland to lend a hand.  Look after your loved ones and neighbours.  Ask them if they need help and offer to collect their prescriptions.  We all must do it to get through it.  Together we can win.”

 

 

 

Share this:

  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)
  • Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)

Related

Next article  Pledge to vaccinate 400k Scots a week by end of February

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Coronavirus, NI, PIP news

Register for our upcoming webinar and live Q&A

About PIP editor

Pharmacy in Practice is a UK pharmacy publication with its roots in Scotland.

Reader Interactions

Begin the discussion right here Cancel reply

Primary Sidebar

Categories

Follow Us

  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter

PIP business directory

Letters to the editor

Letters to the editor

It is difficult to know how to ask a patient if they can read

How 56 community pharmacies helped to eradicate hepatitis C

Is a pharmacist who sells rapid antibody tests unfit to practise?

Pharmacists are disillusioned, disenfranchised and marginalised

More letters to the editor here...

Blogs

💊 PIP live pharmacy blog

Winter stresses must not ‘destabilise’ general practice

What is it like to depend on medicine to treat endometriosis?

Opinion

Why is pharmacy not integral to government mass vaccination plans?

Pharmacy Covid-19 vaccination involvement is a ‘no-brainer’

The great patient medication returns debacle

CPD Challenges

💊 CPD Challenge: How well do you understand pulmonary embolisms?

💊 CPD Challenge: Prescribing and dispensing clozapine

💊 CPD Challenge: Oral anticoagulants – Dabigatran

More CPD challenges here...

© 2021 · About Pharmacy In Practice · Site mantained by Mike

This site is for healthcare professionals, please confirm you are a healthcare professional to continue.

YES

loading Cancel
Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Email check failed, please try again
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.
Pharmacy In Practice uses cookies, by continuing to use this site we will assume you are ok with that Find out more.