NPC Archive Item: Primary Care & Community Services: Improving Pharmaceutical Services

NOTE – This is an archive post from the NPC and has not been updated since first publication. Therefore, some hyperlinks may no longer be working. Published in March 2009 by the Department of Health and NHS Primary Care Contracting, the PrimaryCare&CommunityServices:  Improving pharmaceutical services guide provides practical advice on how PCTs can assess their […]

NPC Archive Item: Guidance for GP practices on achieving best value from the community pharmacy medicines use review service; and for the implementation of repeat dispensing

NOTE – This is an archive post from the NPC and has not been updated since first publication. Therefore, some hyperlinks may no longer be working. The Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee (PSNC), British Medical Association (BMA) and NHS Employers jointly published two pieces of guidance for GP practices in January 2009. These were ‘achieving best […]

NPC Archive Item: NPC Podcast – 6th June 2008

NOTE – This is an archive post from the NPC and has not been updated since first publication. Therefore, some hyperlinks may no longer be working. A talk with Alison Ewing, Clinical Director of Pharmacy, about some of the medicines management developments at the Royal Liverpool & Broadgeen NHS Trust followed by a brief review […]

NPC Archive Item: Training Programme to Improve the Safety of Patients

NOTE – This is an archive post from the NPC and has not been updated since first publication. Therefore, some hyperlinks may no longer be working. The National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) has recently launched a Foresight Training Resource Pack to improve the safety of patients treated in the NHS. It covers many areas of […]

NPC Archive Item: First Accredited Pharmacists with Special Interests

NOTE – This is an archive post from the NPC and has not been updated since first publication. Therefore, some hyperlinks may no longer be working. Two pharmacists from Bradford have become the first in the country to be accredited with special interests. The accreditation process which was locally determined and nationally recognised included a […]

NPC Archive Item: Using healthcare professionals to deliver organisational improvements

NOTE – This is an archive post from the NPC and has not been updated since first publication. Therefore, some hyperlinks may no longer be working. What is the background to this? Primary Care Contracting, commissioned by the Department of Health, has published a number of case studies that highlight the innovative work being undertaken […]