LloydsPharmacy to offer 30-minute delivery service in 150 stores ... Liverpool ● Coventry ● Manchester ● Newport   Other multiples have launched similar same-day delivery services which have continued beyond the Government-funded pandemic delivery service which ended in March 2021. Boots UK also partnered with Deliveroo last year, piloting a similar OTC medicines delivery service to the one LloydsPharmacy is running. Meanwhile, Superdrug currently runs a healthca ... Date: 20-06-2022 Categories: • News

How will pharmacies be impacted today by the 'Living with Covid' plan? ... ose that mandate lockdown and require people to self-isolate if they test positive, will be scrapped from today (24 February). Here, we explore how this will impact pharmacies in England: Pandemic delivery service The community pharmacy home delivery service is due to end on 5 March, the pharmacy negotiator has said. The pandemic delivery service was first launched in April 2020 and has been restarted ... Date: 24-02-2022 Categories: • News

What a year it's been: but what's next for pharmacy? ... proof our sector moving forward. Our response to date, alongside our open-door policy throughout the past 22 months, should be enough proof of the value we provide to our local communities: The pandemic delivery serviceLateral flow test provisionRecord flu vaccination numbers for the 21/22 season1,500 pharmacy sites providing significant vaccination numbers and offering local options to communities that have low upt ... Date: 15-12-2021 Categories: • Views

Pharmacies not involved in launch plan for Covid-19 antiviral treatments ... the best people to distribute the oral antivirals – making sure people have easy access to critical medicines, safely, is what we do best. And pharmacies have proven, through the success of the Pandemic Delivery Service, that they can do this in a Covid-safe way that gets medicines to people in their homes. ‘DHSC and NHSE&I are still in the planning stages of how distribution might work pending the trial results, a ... Date: 10-12-2021 Categories: • News • Respiratory

Pandemic delivery service extended for people isolating ... rs can claim payment for the delivery of medicines to clinically extremely vulnerable patients under the Community Pharmacy Home Delivery Service on the Manage Your Service (MYS) portal. The pandemic delivery service came to an end for clinically extremely vulnerable (CEV) patients in March after many lockdown restrictions were lifted and the group were told they no longer had to shield. NHS England and NHS Improve ... Date: 01-10-2021 Categories: • News

Pharmacy delivery service extended for people self-isolating The community pharmacy pandemic delivery service in England has been extended for people who have been told to self-isolate by NHS Test and Trace.  In a letter to contractors earlier this week (28 June), NHS England said the servi ... Date: 01-07-2021 Categories: • News

Pharmacies facing ‘devastating’ impact of Covid cost pressures, survey finds ... ts for opening on some bank holidays in 2020, £300 to cover the cost of installing a Perspex screen, and some renumeration via the pandemic delivery service. A £15m uplift for Category M was introduced in June to help tackle cashflow problems caused by the inflation of medicine prices. And Government figures show contractors have so far claimed over £18m in PPE reimbursements. But it simply has not been enough. Ahead o ... Date: 24-05-2021 Categories: • News

Pandemic delivery service ends as people told they no longer have to shield The community pharmacy home delivery service in England has come to an end for clinically extremely vulnerable (CEV) patients today (31 March), the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee (PSNC) has said. This comes ... Date: 31-03-2021 Categories: • News • Respiratory

Pandemic delivery service extended as more people told to shield The pandemic delivery service has been extended in England, NHS England and Improvement (NHSE&I) has confirmed. In a letter to contractors last week (19 February) NHSE&I said the service will now run until 31 March 202 ... Date: 22-02-2021 Categories: • News • Respiratory

Pandemic delivery service restarts as tighter restrictions introduced for London and South East The pandemic delivery service has restarted again in England for tier 4 areas, NHS England and Improvement (NHSE&I) has confirmed. In a letter to contractors, NHSE&I said the service will run from 21 December 2020 unti ... Date: 22-12-2020 Categories: • News • Respiratory

Pharmacy assistant one of lowest paid jobs in UK, figures show ... lockdown in March, all non-essential businesses have been forced to close, leaving pharmacies as one of the only remaining shops open. In response to the national lockdown, the pandemic delivery service has restarted and will continue until 3 December. Date: 06-11-2020 Categories: • News • Respiratory

Minister thanks pharmacy teams for their work ahead of ‘very tough’ winter ... ing. Pharmacies urgently require financial support from NHS England to keep the doors open for patients in this current lockdown and beyond.' The pandemic delivery service has restarted in England and is due to run for the duration of the second national lockdown, until 3 December. Date: 06-11-2020 Categories: • News • Respiratory

Pandemic delivery service to restart for second lockdown The pandemic delivery service will restart in England tomorrow (5 November), health secretary Matt Hancock has confirmed. In a letter to contractors, NHS England said the service will run for the duration of the second nationa ... Date: 04-11-2020 Categories: • News • Respiratory

‘Significant decrease’ in number of patient safety incidents reported during lockdown ... h increased by 3% from last quarter, accounting for 10% of incidents reported. This increase in delivery errors occurred during the months in which the NHS England’s community pharmacy pandemic delivery service was commissioned; which started on 9 April and ended nationally in July. The service meant thousands more medicine deliveries were made between April and July than in months previously. During the same per ... Date: 27-10-2020 Categories: • News

Delivery service extended to more local lockdown areas The pandemic delivery service has been extended further in areas across England which are currently under a local lockdown, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has announced. Pharmacies that fall within the speci ... Date: 10-09-2020 Categories: • News • Respiratory

Only 8% of requests for NHS Volunteer Responders have come from community pharmacy ... via the GoodSAM app to support the NHS and care providers with a variety of tasks, including collecting medication and shopping for people who were self-isolating or shielding. Under the national pandemic delivery service, launched on 10 April, pharmacy teams were required to signpost shielded patients to either an NHS volunteer or a locally-organised volunteer service, where they did not have anyone else to collect t ... Date: 28-07-2020 Categories: • News • Respiratory

Pandemic delivery service puts saving money above patient and staff safety, pharmacists claim The Community Pharmacy Pandemic Delivery Service is ‘very unsafe’ and ‘totally unworkable’, because of the risk it poses to patients and staff, a pharmacy contractor has said. The NHS scheme is also prioritising saving money over the safety of p ... Date: 17-04-2020 Categories: • News • Respiratory

EXCLUSIVE: Pharmacists say pandemic medicine delivery service misses some of the most vulnerable patients The government-funded Community Pharmacy Pandemic Delivery Service will not cover some of the UK’s most vulnerable patients, pharmacists claim. The government's list of shielded patients -- for whom pharmacies are now required to arrange delivery of medications - ... Date: 16-04-2020 Categories: • News • Respiratory

Risk involved in medicine delivery by NHS volunteers is too high say pharmacists Pharmacy contractors have expressed concerns over the Community Pharmacy Pandemic Delivery Service, launched this month, with some saying they do not feel comfortable using NHS volunteers to deliver medicines. NHS volunteers will not be DBS checked, and contractors will be responsible for ensur ... Date: 16-04-2020 Categories: • Analysis • News • Respiratory