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The NHS Community Pharmacy Blood Pressure Check Service (also known as the NHS Community Pharmacy Hypertension Case-Finding Advanced Service) started on 1 October 2021. Important Update for Contractors                              The expanded…

The Hepatitis C Antibody Testing Service is a new advanced service for community pharmacy commencing in September 2020. Through this service, people who inject drugs who are not currently accessing community drug and alcohol treatment services will…

The 2022/23 Community Pharmacy Assurance Framework (CPAF) screening questionnaire will launch on Monday 18 July 2022.   NHS England and Improvement has made some adjustments to this year's CPAF questions. The questionnaire must be completed…

The service, which launched on 31 January 2024, allows community pharmacies to offer advice to patients and supply NHS medicines (where clinically appropriate) to treat 7 common health conditions (clinical pathways) without a prescription from a GP…

The NHS Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS) is a national Advanced Service to refer patients requiring low acuity advice, treatment and urgent repeat prescriptions to community pharmacies. The service aims to reduce pressure on the…

If you are already receiving, or have agreed to receive, electronic prescriptions and you get regular or repeat medicines that do not change, your GP may have moved you on to electronic Repeat Dispensing (eRD). This means your GP can send your…

Primary care networks (PCNs), acting on behalf of a group of GPs and community pharmacies, can claim payment for administering the COVID-19 vaccination.  Payments are processed by NHSBSA, acting on behalf of NHS England and NHS Improvement (NHSEI…

Prescription processing is to become digital by default as the final phase of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) is rolled out across the country. The latest improvement to EPS - known as Phase 4 - allows prescriptions for all patients to be…

The following are announcements on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC): Expansion of the NHS New Medicine Service Amended Directions for the expanded New Medicine Service (NMS) and a new Determination for the service have…

We're delivering you the following message on behalf of NHS England and NHS Improvement. The Advanced Service element of the Medicines Delivery Service (MDS) for self-isolating patients from pharmacies and dispensing doctors, ceased on 5 March 2022…