Press Releases

May 2013

• Guidance launched for students on pre-registration training offers
• Pharmacy Voice comments on Health Select Committee’s hearing into Emergency Services&Emergency; Care
• Pharmacy Voice responds to Which? report
• PV CEO warns against giving Information Commissioner power to enter pharmacies without consent
• PV responds to consultation on Health Care and Associated Professions indemnity arrangements
• Pharmacy Voice comments on the APPG’s meeting on the Falsified Medicines Directive
• Pharmacy Voice welcomes publication of information pack on PNAs
• Pharmacy Voice comments on the Queen’s speech
• Pharmacy Voice welcomes publication of guidance on medicines optimisation

April 2013

• Pharmacy Voice responds to NICE consultation on patient group directions
• Public highly approves of Healthy Living Pharmacies, concludes evaluation report
• Pharmacy Voice commissioning documents downloaded over 1,000 times

March 2013

• Pharmacy Voice launches toolkit to support community pharmacy’s local engagement with commissioners
• Pharmacy Voice welcomes news that all those in receipt of Universal Credit will be entitled to free
• Pharmacy Voice comments on the six month funding extension for the New Medicine Service
• Pharmacy Voice welcomes NHS Alliance’s manifesto for primary care
• Pharmacy Voice disappointed with planned increase in prescription charges for England

February 2013

• Pharmacy Voice responds to research into medicines adherence
• Pharmacy Voice responds to Monitor’s consultation on draft enforcement guidance
• Pharmacy Voice responds to the MHRA’s draft 2013-18 corporate plan
• Pharmacy Voice responds to the Department of Health’s consultation on ‘strengthening the NHS constit
• Community pharmacy funding negotiations

January 2013

• CPO review and APPG meeting must prompt progress on decriminalisation, say pharmacy bodies
• New guidance for local authorities on pharmaceutical needs assessments
• Pharmacy Bodies Respond to NHS CB IG Toolkit Consultation

December 2012

• Action plan for improving the use of medicines and reducing waste published
• Pharmacy Voice publishes landscape document
• BBC allegations about the illegal sale of prescription only medicines

November 2012

• Pharmacy Voice responds to Government’s proposals to introduce a minimum alcohol price
• Pharmacy Voice responds to the consultation ‘Draft Regulations: the Controlled Drugs
• Pharmacy Voice responds to the MLX 379 consultation on the Falsified Medicines Directive
• Pharmacy Voice responds to the Government’s reaction to the APPG’s stock shortages report

October 2012

• Pharmacy Voice applauds North West pharmacies for alcohol interventions
• Pharmacy Minister praises community pharmacy for “important safety net” the sector provides
• “The system of pricing prescriptions in England is broken” says Pharmacy Voice
• Pharmacy Voice responds to ‘Our NHS care objectives – A draft mandate to the NHS Commissioning Board

September 2012

• PV responds to consultation on Joint Strategic Needs Assessments&Joint Health&Wellbeing Strategies
• Pharmacy Voice responds to GPhC’s announcement about the location of pharmacy-only medicines
• Pharmacy Voice responds to interim community pharmacy funding changes
• Pharmacy Voice Chief Executive interviewed on Sky News
• Local pharmacies intervene on two million prescriptions every year
• LPNs a chance to put pharmacists at the heart of commissioning, say pharmacy bodies
• Pharmacy Voice launches IT strategy
• Pharmacy Voice releases data on patient harm caused by medicine supply problems
• Pharmacy Voice responds to shared decisions consultation

August 2012

• Pharmacy Voice calls on Government to work with industry stakeholders to strengthen protection again

July 2012

• Community pharmacy needs to be at heart of NHS vaccination programmes
• Pharmacy Voice calls for caution on roll out of electronic prescriptions
• Pharmacy Voice responds to Earl Howe’s announcement on control of entry
• Pharmacy Voice welcomes parliamentary report into the Government’s Alcohol Strategy
• Pharmacy Voice welcomes the launch of report evaluating the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS)
• Pharmacy Voice responds to ‘Enablers and barriers to integrated care and implications for Monitor
• Pharmacy Voice responds to Monitor’s preliminary consultation ‘Fair Playing Field’
• Pharmacy Voice’s urgent list for Government

June 2012

• Almost half of PCTs do not track GP owned pharmacies, finds Pharmacy Voice

May 2012

• Pharmacy Voice responds to NHS Information Strategy
• Pharmacy Voice Chairman appears on BBC Breakfast
• Pharmacy bodies respond to parliamentary report into medicines shortages
• Pharmacy bodies respond to parliamentary report into medicines shortages
• Pharmacy Voice seeks “cast-iron” assurances on section 10(7) repeal
• Pharmacy Voice welcomes exemption of non-regulated health care staff from Vetting and Barring
• Pharmacy Voice responds to GMC study into prescribing errors

April 2012

• Pharmacy Voice responds to European Commission’s consultation on Falsified Medicines Directive
• Pharmacy Voice comments on news about sexual health services delivered from pharmacies in London
• TaxPayer’s Alliance paper insubstantial, out of date and utterly misleading says pharmacy Voice
• Pharmacy Voice welcomes improvements made to NMS payment structure

March 2012

• Prescription charge increase is regrettable says Pharmacy Voice
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• Pharmacy Voice comments on minimum alcohol pricing planned for England and Wales
• Pharmacy Voice comments on the passing of the Health and Social Care Bill through Parliament
• Government commits to review sanctions for dispensing errors

February 2012

• Pharmacy Voice disappointed with planned increase in prescription charges for England
• Pharmacy Voice publishes landscape document
• Cutting Red Tape – Freeing Pharmacists for Frontline Care
• Pharmacy Voice launches ‘prospectus for better health’

January 2012

• Pharmacy Voice welcomes the launch of the Public Health Outcomes Framework
• Pharmacy Voice responds to parliamentary inquiry on medicines shortages
• Pharmacy Voice expresses “serious concerns” about quality and accuracy of current PNAs
• Nursing leader visits local pharmacy
• Pharmacy Voice responds to MHRA review of Medicines Legislation
• Pharmacy bodies respond to MHRA announcement on dispensing errors
• Pharmacy Voice welcomes proposals outlined in the NICE consultation on ‘Preventing type-2 diabetes’
• Pharmacy Voice welcomes NHS Future Forum call to “make every contact count”

December 2011

• NHS Business Services Authority second group to come before Pharmacy Voice scrutiny panel
• Pharmacy Voice calls for Sustainable Communities Act to be strengthened
• Obligation to involve pharmacy in commissioning is now official, says Pharmacy Voice

November 2011

• Public back calls for tougher rules on drug manufacturers
• Pharmacy Voice welcomes inquiry into NHS medicines shortages
• Pharmacy Voice has welcomed the Department of Health’s decision to remove the three year rule.
• Admin should not get in the way of NMS says Pharmacy Voice

October 2011

• Pharmacy Voice backs MP’s call for action on medicine delays
• Getting a grip on our own destiny as a profession is at heart of Pharmacy Voice, says NPA chairman
• Pharmacy Voice lobbies Lords on Health Reforms
• Pharmacy Voice responds to Open Public Services consultation

September 2011

• GPhC is first regulator to come before Pharmacy Voice scrutiny panel
• New NHS pharmacy service will cut medicines waste and improve health
• Pharmacy Voice distributes its latest ‘think-piece’ document
• New guide produced to support local authorities identify good local sources of clinical information
• Pharmacy Voice convenes Local Government roundtable
• Pharmacy Voice lobbies MPs as Health & Social Care Bill enters critical stage