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COVID-19: Smartcard multi-site code added to cards of pharmacy professionals
NHS Digital are adding the multi-site FFFFF Smartcard code to Smartcards with the pharmacist or technician role, for the duration of the pandemic. The initiative has been supported by PSNC and NHS England and NHS Improvement. The bulk activity performed by NHS Digital is scheduled to take place across this week and to be finished...
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New COVID-19 codes added to SCR Additional Information
New COVID-19 SNOMED CT codes have been added to SCR Additional Information to capture suspected or confirmed COVID-19 status from GP systems. GPs have been instructed to record whether a patient is assumed to have had COVID-19, whether a patient has been tested, and whether the patient is at risk of medical complications should they...
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Supporting carers during the COVID-19 pandemic
During the COVID-19 pandemic, pharmacies have had to make necessary changes to their usual ways of working in order to ensure local communities can continue to access their medicines. The Carers Trust has reported that some carers have had difficulty coping with some of these changes – including queuing outside the pharmacy as a result...
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The Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment (PNA) looks at the current provision of pharmaceutical services across the relevant Health and Wellbeing Board area. The PNA is a key document which will be used by NHS England to inform decisions regarding applications for new or changes to existing pharmaceutical services.
Local authorities have now published new PNAs for 2018-2021 which can be found below.
Last Updated: 19th February 2019