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NHS pharmacists overlooked for pay rise
NHS doctors and dentists are set to get a 2.8% pay rise in England, backdated to April. Pharmacists have been overlooked on this occasion.
Ade Williams represents pharmacy in portraits of NHS heroes
Portraits of pharmacists, nurses and other NHS staff who responded to COVID-19, captured by acclaimed photographer Rankin, have been unveiled.
Dr Ollie Hart on being a PCN Clinical Director, the importance of patient activation and why coaching is so important in healthcare
Ollie describes himself as a ‘typical GP who spins a few plates’. He is a PCN Clinical Director in Sheffield, has experience of commissioning for the NHS, still practises as a GP and also finds time to run his own health coaching company called Peak Health Coaching.
Alexa the latest member of the NHS family
The NHS is collaborating with Amazon to provide health information from the NHS website through voice-assisted technology.
Realistic medicine central to health board reform programme
Realistic medicine should be a key part of NHS Tayside’s reform programme to save money and improve services, Grant Archibald, the board’s chief executive, has said. “Realistic medicine has huge potential for us to do things differently in Tayside and put us at the vanguard of exciting change,” he told delegates at a Dundee […]
NHS to take a firmer approach to deter prescription fraud
NHS England and NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) are now starting to take a firmer approach to deter fraud. In early 2018, NHSBSA started trialling an approach with people who have received five or more penalty charge notices (PCNs) in a 12-month period but had made no attempt to pay. Selected repeat offenders […]
Success at Cadham Pharmacy recognised in parliament
The team at Cadham Pharmacy have been recognised in parliament. Seven members of parliament brought a motion in support of the innovative work achieved at Cadham by pharmacist owner Bernadette Brown and her team. The early day motion passed by the seven MPs reads as follows: “That this House commends the ongoing […]
Negotiations on the English community pharmacy contractual framework begin
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has initiated the negotiation process with a set of proposals which have been agreed with NHS England. These have now been shared with the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee (PSNC).
