Blog: Making the case for advancing patient safety culture
From brain surgery, childbirth and hip replacements, to collecting a prescription from a community pharmacy, as patients we expect every...
Category: Blogs
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Blog: biggest game change for pharmacy?
I may not have known it at the time, but my university years definitely helped shape me into the studious-but-spirited...
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Blog: our plans for local pharmacy engagement
There’s still a lot of uncertainty for us, mainly because the community pharmacy contractual framework negotiations are still to begin, but it’s clear that community pharmacy has an important role to play in prevention and urgent care.
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Blog: DMIRS and the “Clapham omnibus”
What would the average person “on the Clapham omnibus” do if they were experiencing conjunctivitis? For those unfamiliar with this...
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Blog: Quality Payments – helping solve the LASA puzzle?
With the deadline of Friday 1 March fast approaching, there is just over a week left for pharmacy teams to...
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Blog: new website, new approach
Welcome to our new website. When the CCA decided to redesign our old site, three main issues became clear. First,...
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Blog: Community pharmacy in Scotland
How time flies! After 21 weeks in post, here are my reflections on taking a mammoth leap into a new...
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Guest Blog: Choose Self Care for Life this Self Care Week
Self Care Week (12 – 18 November) is the national awareness initiative which aims to increase people’s ability to ‘self...
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Blog: A welcome in the Welsh hillside
Wales has a rich history of pharmacy, with the establishment of the Welsh School of Pharmacy in 1919 predating the...
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Guest blog: Be proud on World Pharmacists Day – a perspective from the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP)
By Catherine Duggan, CEO, FIP Today our profession will be marking World Pharmacists Day. Around the world, our colleagues will...
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Blog: How the Community Pharmacy Patient Safety Group is helping teams safely dispense sodium valproate
CCA board member Janice Perkins explains how the Community Pharmacy Patient Safety Group is helping pharmacy teams to safely dispense...
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Blog: Brexit, pharmacy and me
At a time when Theresa May’s efforts to put together a deal to place before the European Union have garnered...