New Internet Pharmacy Logo unveiled
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) has launched a new Internet Pharmacy Logo, designed to be a visual tool to help the public identify if a website is being operated by a bona fide pharmacy in Britain. The move follows research by the society which showed that over 2m people across Britain now […]
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BNF for mobile devices launched
Britain’s best-known medicines guide, the British National Formulary, is now available especially configured to be used on a range of mobile devices including BlackBerrys and Apple’s new iPhone. The BNF aims to provide prescribers, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals with essential information on the selection of safe and effective medicines for individual patients. It is […]
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Wider engagement with pharmacists could yield benefits
Wider engagement with community pharmacists which could deliver a range of new services with the appropriate IT support and access to electronic records is being ignored by the NHS IT programme in England, according to a pharmacy body. The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) has told an inquiry into the future of pharmacy […]
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Pharmacists call for greater say in CRS taskforce
The leading high street pharmacy operators have criticised the exclusion of pharmacists from the government’s NHS Summary Care Record Taskforce and called for pharmacists to have full read-and-write access to the record. The Company Chemists’ Association, which represents the majority of UK multiple pharmacies including Boots, Lloyds and Asda, claim that other healthcare professionals do […]
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Pharmacists call for GP booking facility
Pharmacy representatives are calling for a ‘Choose and Book’ style system to be set up between pharmacies and GP practices so that pharmacists can book GP appointments for patients. The idea has been proposed by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) as part of its submission to the Department of Health’s consultation […]
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Handwriting rules for controlled drug scripts written off
GPs will no longer have to handwrite prescriptions for controlled drugs as a result of amendments to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations which come into force next week. From 14 November, prescriptions for controlled drugs can be produced using typing and printing, ending a restriction which has been viewed as anachronistic since the widespread adoption […]
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