Our colleagues at Scottish Government are currently reviewing the Palliative Care and end of life care strategy. Your input would be greatly appreciated - what works well, what could be better, suggestions for change.

A new Medicines Supply Alert Notice has been released for both Salbutamol 2.5mg/2.5ml and 5mg/2.5ml

In January the SARCS February poster campaign had been cancelled. We have now heard that the menopause campaign, originally due to be displayed in community pharmacies from 5 March 2024 – 31 March 2024, has also been cancelled.

The new updated version of Part 7 is now available for March 2024. In this month there are several additions we wanted to make you aware of.

With your next Parcelforce prescription collection coming up on Thursday 7th March 2024, we wanted to make you aware of some important timescales for submitting these. P&CFS have advised the following:

Our colleagues at NES are due to re-tender for the information sources that they make available to healthcare professionals across Scotland, including Medicines Complete, which provides access to the BNF online. If you have any feedback on which publications you find most or least useful, you can inform this re-tendering exercise by filling out this short survey.

Our colleagues at NES have asked us to share the following invitation - they are looking for teams who could host experiential learning blocks for undergraduate Pharmacy students.

Our friends in the Scottish Respiratory Pharmacy specialist interest group have created a really helpful, short leaflet to support patients' understanding of their treatment in plain, easy-to-understand terms.

A Public Health Approach to Women, Contraception and Abortion

Please find below a message from our colleagues at NES, who are preparing to begin the recruitment for 2025/26 Foundation Year (Pre-reg) pharmacists.

NHS Scotland, in collaboration with BT, is set to enhance the Scottish Wide Area Network (SWAN), benefiting over 6,000 sites, including pharmacies.

Following years of extensive engagement, this consultation now seeks to further expand the list of individuals and services that can supply take-home Naloxone as well as introducing new reporting requirements

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

We are now in the final two weeks before the DHSC Pharmacy Supervision consultation closes, and now is the time to get those all-important consultation responses submitted!

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

Healthcare Improvement Scotland (HIS) is seeking input on draft standards for gender identity healthcare services, mentioning community pharmacies and primary care services

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?

Community Pharmacy Scotland's (CPS) Pharmacy Supervision Consultation Ask Me Anything hosted by Policy & Development Pharmacist Adam Osprey and Policy and PR Pharmacist Sarah Scott.

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