It’s that time again, your next prescription collection date is Tuesday, 20th February.

Many of our members have signed up to provide a safe space and crisis response for those suffering from domestic abuse

CPS is looking into digitally developing services that can be used to support patients in the area of Womens Health, in this instance, Menopause.

Have you utilised the national Naloxone Service within your community pharmacy? Perhaps you have managed to help someone in need by supplying a Naloxone kit in an emergency?

A poster for use within the dispensary (not for display to the public) with instructions as to how to use the pre-filled disposable Naloxone intra-muscular injection will arrive in the post to your pharmacies, in the coming three weeks.

This Circular advises NHS Boards and healthcare professionals that print copies of the British National Formulary (BNF) and BNF for Children (BNFC) will no longer be provided

There’s a 10 minute survey where you can give your views on ways to improve the production, organisation and delivery of the information.

A free early cancer diagnosis resource for primary care professional.

There are currently review dates on some of the NHS PGDs in your NHS Boards. Please note that review dates are not expiry dates on the PGD; they are a note of the time window from which the review will take place.

Breathing Space Day Marks 20 Years of Crucial Mental Health Support in Scotland

Any private prescribing of controlled drugs must be done on a specific PPCD(1) form, which can be ordered by prescribers once they have registered with a relevant NHS Health Board.

Our colleagues at Public Health Scotland (PHS) have brought to our attention a recent outbreak of measles

As part of our work with the Digital Prescribing and Dispensing Programme to move to paperless prescriptions, we urgently need your help!

Pharmacy superintendents and teams may wish to review a new library of support materials that have been published by the MHRA to further minimise the potential harm that Valproate-containing medicines can cause.

Following the release of PCA (P)(2023) 46 Amendments to the Drug Tariff Part 11 Discount Clawback Scale, it was brought to our attention that the annex within the circular had a number of anomalies within of negative percentages.

As some of you may be aware, NHS England are due to launch the NHS Pharmacy First service in English community pharmacies on 31st of January 2024.

It’s the New Year, and with that we wanted to refresh your memory on some top tips for packing your prescription submissions:

The current Public Health Service Poster campaign topic is Smoking Cessation which will run until further notice. The poster campaign topic of Sexual Assault Response Co-ordination Service is no longer going ahead.

National Pharmacy Technician Group Scotland (NPTGS) are looking for Pharmacy Technician and Pharmacy Support team members to participate in groundbreaking research that will reimagine the roles of Pharmacy Support team members and Pharmacy Technicians

Each local NHS Health Board has the ability to develop bespoke local pharmacy services to suit the needs of local communities and patients