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New partnership to reduce disease burden in Northern Ireland, starting with Hepatitis C
A new partnership has been forged in Belfast to deliver ‘triple win’ benefits to patients, NI Health and Social Care (HSC) and the economy.
The...
Your response to the pandemic has been of the highest order, Keith Ridge tells pharmacies
Dr Keith Ridge, the chief pharmaceutical officer at NHS England, has praised community pharmacies for demonstrating their "essential clinical role" at a very challenging time.
"We...
GP deal ‘will hardly feel like good news to community pharmacies’
The Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee (PSNC) has criticised the latest general practice funding deal for channelling all investment into primary care through GP surgeries.
In...
Hertfordshire: Councillors hear of plans for increased role of pharmacists
By Deborah Price
Almost one in every 12 admissions to hospitals in Hertfordshire are related to medicines, councillors have been told.
And in many of those cases,...
Cathy Harrison assumes permanent role as Northern Ireland’s Chief Pharmaceutical Officer
Cathy Harrison has been permanently appointed as Northern Ireland's Chief Pharmaceutical Officer.
Harrison, who had been serving as the acting CPO since Dr Mark Timoney...