Blog: early-days engagement journey with Primary Care Networks (PCNs)
Primary Care Networks, or PCNs, are the current big deal within Primary Care. They’re all about localism and grouping the...
Category: Blogs
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Blog: business rates should reflect vital role that community pharmacies play
With the well documented challenges facing general practice, community pharmacy clearly has an ever greater role to play in the...
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Blog: Why contraception in England needs national commissioning approach
The walk of shame or the stride of pride? Often the conversation about access to emergency contraception is positioned in...
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Blog: how community pharmacy can support people with mental illness
From left to right: Jasmeen Islam, Deputy Chief Pharmacist; Rebecca Hellier, Clinical Pharmacist/Teacher Practitioner; Gill Heron, Clozapine Clinic Team Member;...
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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...
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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...