| Vallance: ‘Likely’ covid vaccine will become available in ‘first half of next year’ Pharmacists and GPs could be delivering a Covid-19 vaccine programme before next summer, as Government experts set out their first time-frame for ‘promising’ late-stage trials. The Government’s chief scientifi ... Date: 21-09-2020 Categories: • News |
| Plans to allow pharmacists to administer Covid-19 vaccine become law ... bsp; The changes, which follow the Government’s public consultation in August, mean that an expanded cohort of healthcare professionals will be trained up to administer both flu and covid vaccines – once one becomes available. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said this expansion will begin with those who ‘already have experience in handling vaccinations but may cu ... Date: 16-10-2020 Categories: • Latest News • News |
| UK to have 14 million doses of covid vaccine ready by end of year The UK may be able to launch a Covid vaccination campaign before the end of the year, the chair of the UK vaccine taskforce has confirmed. Vaccines pre-procured by the UK Government are already being manufactu ... Date: 05-11-2020 Categories: • Covid-19 • News |
| Welsh Covid-19 vaccination programme to be led by health boards and trusts ... of means (mass immunisation, mobile, occupational and wider primary care)’, the statement said. Russell Goodway, Chief Executive of Community Pharmacy Wales, said: 'The delivery of the developing covid vaccine is both a major breakthrough and a major challenge to every part of NHS Wales. Building on our success and energy in delivering the flu vaccination programme in Wales, the community pharmacy network ... Date: 18-11-2020 Categories: • Covid-19 • News |
| NHS England outlines plans to set up pharmacy sites for Covid vaccinations NHS England has said it is planning to ‘stand up’ some community pharmacy sites for administering covid vaccines alongside any vaccination programme delivered by general practice. In a webinar today (18 November) on the Covid vaccination programme, NHS England said general practice had a ‘particularly impor ... Date: 18-11-2020 Categories: • News |
| Pharmacists to deliver flu vaccines to patients aged 50-64 from December ... earing up to deliver a major Covid vaccination programme as soon as a candidate gains approval from the MHRA. The DHSC said that the NHS is ‘well equipped to administer both’ the flu vaccine and a covid vaccine ‘in parallel’. It added that further details of the Covid vaccination ‘deployment plan’ will follow. In a bulletin sent by NHS England to practices this morning, it said: ‘General practices and ... Date: 20-11-2020 Categories: • Covid-19 • News |
| Pharmacy staff to be prioritised for covid vaccine based on clinical risk Pharmacy staff will be prioritised for Covid vaccination based on their personal risk level, exposure and amount of contact with vulnerable people, the UK Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) ha ... Date: 03-12-2020 Categories: • Covid-19 • News |
| Former PM joins sector calls for Government to involve all pharmacies in covid vaccine rollout ... several other vaccines already provided by community pharmacies, our teams are well placed to administer it.' He added: 'We estimate that community pharmacies could administer up to half a million covid vaccines a week.' When asked whether NHS England and Improvement was considering involving more pharmacies in the rollout, an NHSE spokesperson told the Pharmacist that 'community pharmacies are already a ... Date: 04-01-2021 Categories: • Covid-19 • News |
| NHS England lining up 200 pharmacy sites to deliver Covid vaccinations ... b Dem MP Munira Wilson, Mr Johnson told Parliament the Government had so far ‘signed up hundreds [of community pharmacies] to the campaign’, adding there would be ‘many more to follow’. Meanwhile, covid vaccine deployment minister Nadhim Zahawi told LBC News listeners yesterday that the Government will be ‘working with the community pharmacy and independent sector in the coming days and weeks’ in order to r ... Date: 07-01-2021 Categories: • News |
| Moderna becomes third Covid-19 vaccine approved by medicines regulator The Moderna Covid-19 vaccine has been authorised for use by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), the Government has announced. It is the third covid vaccine to be approved by the MHRA, following the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (2 December) and the Oxford University/AstraZeneca vaccine (30 December). The Moderna vaccine is 94% effective in preventing disea ... Date: 08-01-2021 Categories: • News |
| ‘Large and small’ pharmacies to be used in covid vaccine rollout Both large and small community pharmacies will be used to support primary care networks (PCNs) in the rollout of the Covid-19 vaccination programme, the Government has confirmed. This comes as part of the UK C ... Date: 11-01-2021 Categories: • Covid-19 • News |
| All over 50s in Wales to receive covid vaccine 'by Spring' ... nt supply will increase significantly in the next few weeks, if we had more we could increase coverage rapidly.’ According to Public Health Wales, 91,239 people have received the first dose of the covid vaccine so far. Date: 12-01-2021 Categories: • Covid-19 • News |
| Asda in-store pharmacy approved to deliver covid vaccine Asda has been commissioned by NHS England to provide Covid vaccinations from an in-store pharmacy in Birmingham, the supermarket chain has announced. Vaccinations will be administered by pharmacy staff to prio ... Date: 13-01-2021 Categories: • News |
| Sector rejects GP calls to slow down pharmacy involvement in Covid vaccination programme ... ne to go around. NHSE&I has so far commissioned 200 pharmacy-led vaccination sites. Hassan Khan, owner of Cullimore Chemist in Edgware - the first pharmacy in London to start delivering the covid vaccine - told the Pharmacist that GPs should be asking pharmacists to ‘speed up’ rather than ‘slow down’. Over the last four days, the pharmacy has delivered over 1,400 vaccinations to eligible patients ... Date: 21-01-2021 Categories: • News |
| NHS England urges unity between pharmacists and GPs over vaccine rollout NHS England has asked community pharmacists and GPs to ‘continue to support each other’ during the Covid vaccination programme. It comes as some GPs have spoken out against the expansion of covid vaccine deliveries to pharmacies, saying that they have the capacity to deliver much more than they are receiving. In a primary care bulletin today (26 January), NHS England said there had already been so ... Date: 26-01-2021 Categories: • News |
| Hancock promises to ‘look into' Covid jab booking issues raised by pharmacists ... for Covid jabs after a Labour MP highlighted the issue in parliament yesterday (2 February). In a House of Commons debate on Covid-19, Afzal Khan, MP for Manchester Gorton, said pharmacy-led covid vaccine sites in England were ‘struggling to navigate the confusion caused by the two online booking systems’. ‘They [pharmacy-led sites] are seeing patients being sent to centres much further away, rathe ... Date: 03-02-2021 Categories: • News |
| Mass vaccination centres ‘not best place’ for Welsh community pharmacists, says CPW ... f Community Pharmacy Wales (CPW) has warned. Giving evidence to the Senedd yesterday (3 February), CPW’s Mark Griffiths said that while mass vaccination centres (MVCs) are ‘undoubtedly’ key to the covid vaccine rollout, they are ‘not necessarily the best place for a pharmacist’. ‘If a community pharmacy is without a qualified pharmacist, it cannot dispense,’ he said. His comments come after a number o ... Date: 04-02-2021 Categories: • News |
| 'Being overlooked for Covid vaccinations has disappointed us on a personal level' ... tients on our NHS site were wonderful and fully vindicated the decision to relocate the service. Such were the reviews that I committed to taking on the premises if we were commissioned to administer covid vaccines. We were offered the use of the whole ground floor and had two very experienced pharmacist colleagues lined up to assist with the service. In addition to this we have had countless offers of assista ... Date: 11-02-2021 Categories: • Opinion |
| Community pharmacies could be key players in an annual covid vaccine rollout, says study Large numbers of community pharmacies have not been involved in the rollout of the Covid-19 vaccine programme, so far – but they could be key players in an annual rollout of the vaccine, according to new research ... Date: 12-02-2021 Categories: • Covid-19 • News |
| Pharmacy sites to start vaccinating over 65s as GPs told to focus on cohort six ... d 15 million patients – by 15 February, a day early. Figures released yesterday showed that 13,165,548 people had been vaccinated in England, of which 12,675,663 were first doses of a covid vaccine. Sandra Gidley, president of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS), said the milestone showed ‘just how hard’ healthcare staff are working in the fight against coronavirus. ‘Pharmacists across ... Date: 15-02-2021 Categories: • News |
| Low numbers of Welsh pharmacies commissioned to deliver Covid jabs so far Welsh Health Boards have so far only commissioned a very limited number of pharmacies to deliver the covid vaccine, despite calls for wider involvement of the sector. This comes after the seven Welsh Health Boards invited pharmacies in December to submit expressions of interest in providing the Oxford/Astrazen ... Date: 02-03-2021 Categories: • Covid-19 • News |
| Take our survey on Covid pressures and win £100 John Lewis vouchers ... closed-door working, manage significant increases in dispensing, deliveries and phones ringing off the hook, administer record numbers of flu vaccinations, and more recently push for its place in the covid vaccine rollout – to name just a few of the challenges faced. But the pressures of the pandemic do not exist in isolation and instead come against the backdrop of years of funding cuts to the sector. In D ... Date: 02-03-2021 Categories: • Covid-19 • News |
| covid vaccine self-referral system extended to pharmacy teams The self-referral booking system for Covid-19 vaccination has been extended to pharmacy staff in England for a limited time, according to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS). The service, set up by NHS Engl ... Date: 05-03-2021 Categories: • News |
| Welsh pharmacists to get extra £3.5m to help cover Covid costs ... cy involvement ‘increasing over the next few weeks’. Earlier this month, the Pharmacist reported that so far only a very limited number of pharmacies in Wales have been commissioned to deliver the covid vaccine, despite calls for wider involvement of the sector. In England, pharmacists launched protests last week over the UK Government’s failure to cover costs incurred by the sector during the pandemic. Date: 16-03-2021 Categories: • News |
| Pharmacy sites told to halt Covid jab bookings from 29 March ... staff vaccinated 25.3 million people between 8 December and 16 March with first doses of the Pfizer and Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccines. A total of 1.8m people have also now had their second dose of a covid vaccine, the Government announced yesterday. Date: 18-03-2021 Categories: • News |
| Pharmacies and GPs vaccinate over 19 million people against the flu ... ‘This month, we’ve only done about five or six, but normally we’d see uptake slow down much earlier - in November,’ he said. ‘When the over 50s were announced there was a peak then and when the covid vaccine announcement was made December time we saw another peak - and after that it slowed down completely.’ Last month NHSE&I said more people could become eligible for a free flu vaccination next wi ... Date: 19-03-2021 Categories: • News |
| Community pharmacies in Northern Ireland to offer covid vaccine by end of March Community pharmacies in Northern Ireland will join the Covid-19 vaccination programme from the end of this month, the health minister announced yesterday (18 March). According to the Department of Hearth in No ... Date: 19-03-2021 Categories: • News |
| AstraZeneca vaccine ‘likely reduces’ risk of blood clots overall, says EMA ... individuals due to targeting of particular populations for vaccine campaigns in different member states.’ The PRAC will undertake an ‘additional review’ of the risks, including with other types of covid vaccines, with further studies launched and ‘close’ monitoring of reports of blood clotting disorders to continue, it added. It comes as UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said he will receive the ... Date: 22-03-2021 Categories: • News |
| Prison pharmacist: ‘My view on prioritising prisoners for Covid jabs changed after seeing how quickly the virus spread inside’ ... was initially hard to accept that hardened criminals were being vaccinated ahead of ordinary, hard-working people.’ He adds that he initially thought prisoners should not be prioritised for their covid vaccine, but after seeing just how quickly the virus spread in the prison, his view changed. ‘People are in such close proximity to one other, they are also constantly being moved around and even when we ... Date: 23-03-2021 Categories: • Interviews • Views |
| Significant reduction in vaccine hesitancy since December, study finds More than four in five people who said they were unsure or would refuse the covid vaccine in December 2020 have since changed their mind, according to a study. The study, conducted by University College London (UCL), found 86% of adults who were hesitant to have the vaccine in December ... Date: 25-03-2021 Categories: • Covid-19 • News |
| Book Covid jab before supply dries up, NHSE tells eligible patients Eligible patients who have not yet had a covid vaccine they are entitled to are being urged to come forward in the next few days before slots dry up. NHS national medical director Professor Stephen Powis called on people to come forward before 29 Marc ... Date: 25-03-2021 Categories: • News |
| Only 18 Welsh community pharmacies commissioned to deliver Covid jabs Welsh health boards have commissioned only 18 of the 713 community pharmacies in Wales to deliver the covid vaccine, despite calls to boost the sector’s involvement. Four of the seven health boards – Swansea Bay, Betsi Cadwaladr, Aneurin Bevan and Cardiff – have commissioned pharmacies to participate in the pro ... Date: 26-03-2021 Categories: • Covid-19 • News |
| MHRA ‘reviewing AstraZeneca vaccine use in under-30s’ The medicines regulator is considering restrictions on the use of the Oxford/AstraZeneca covid vaccine in patients under 30, it has been reported. It comes as the European Medicines Agency (EMA) is also conducting an ‘ongoing review’ of the link between blood clots and the vaccine. Channel 4 New ... Date: 06-04-2021 Categories: • Covid-19 • News |
| Pharmacies cancel all first-time Covid jab bookings for under 30s All first-time covid vaccine appointments on the National Booking System for patients under the age of 30 will be automatically cancelled from tomorrow (9 April), NHS England (NHSE) has announced. Pharmacy-led sites have been ... Date: 08-04-2021 Categories: • Covid-19 • News |
| Pharmacist whose brother died after Covid jab urges public to still take the vaccine A pharmacist whose brother died after having the AstraZeneca jab has said that she strongly believes that people should continue to have their covid vaccines. Speaking on BBC News yesterday (8 April), Dr Alison Astles, said that her brother — who died of a blood clot on the brain on Sunday after having the vaccination on 17 March — was ‘extraordinaril ... Date: 09-04-2021 Categories: • Covid-19 • News |
| Pharmacy sites only offering AstraZeneca vaccine told to cancel first dose appointments for pregnant women ... s also been updated to recommend that those who are pregnant speak to a healthcare professional before booking their appointment, it added. Before the change in PHE guidance, the JCVI advised that covid vaccines should only be offered to pregnant women who were at high risk of exposure to coronavirus, such as frontline health workers, or to those with certain underlying medical conditions. The JCVI concl ... Date: 19-04-2021 Categories: • Covid-19 • News |
| Infections fell by 65% after single covid vaccine dose, finds UK survey One dose of either the Oxford/AstraZeneca or Pfizer vaccine reduced Covid-19 infection by 65%, according to real-world data from the UK Covid-19 Infection Survey. Vaccination was just as effective in people ov ... Date: 23-04-2021 Categories: • Covid-19 • News |
| One dose of covid vaccine can cut household transmission by half, study finds One dose of the covid vaccine reduces household transmission by up to half, according to a major new study by Public Health England. The vast study included over 57,000 contacts from 24,000 households in which there was a lab- ... Date: 28-04-2021 Categories: • News |
| Patients aged 30-39 to be offered AZ vaccine alternative, JCVI recommends ... The MHRA had received Yellow Card reports of 242 cases of major thromboembolic events (blood clots) with concurrent thrombocytopenia (low platelet counts) in the UK following vaccination with the AZ covid vaccine.The events occurred in 141 women and 100 men aged from 18 to 93 years and the overall case fatality rate was 20% with 49 deaths. Six cases have been reported after a second dose .Cerebral venous sinu ... Date: 10-05-2021 Categories: • News |
| Patients aged 38-39 eligible for Covid vaccination from today ... lies of either Pfizer or Moderna’, the bulletin aimed at NHS ‘digital leaders’ added. The Government last week accepted new clinical advice, in relation to rare blood clotting events linked to the covid vaccine, which said patients aged 30-39 should be offered an AstraZeneca alternative as a preference. And NHS England said PCN-led vaccination sites will be able to order extra Pfizer vaccine ... Date: 13-05-2021 Categories: • News |
| covid vaccines have saved 11,700 lives, study finds Covid-19 vaccines have saved 11,700 lives and stopped 33,000 people from needing hospital treatment with coronavirus in England, research released today has suggested. The figures from Public Health England (P ... Date: 14-05-2021 Categories: • Covid-19 • News |
| Pharmacy sites told to upload additional capacity onto booking system as second doses brought forward ... e who remain unvaccinated in priority cohorts 1 to 9 – these people remain at highest risk of severe outcomes from Covid-19.’ The Government said last week that it may send additional doses of the covid vaccine to areas where variants of concerns are spreading, including to bring forward second doses. But Blackburn health chiefs said they were stopped by the Government from widening eligibility to everyone ... Date: 17-05-2021 Categories: • News |
| MHRA authorises single-dose Janssen covid vaccine for UK rollout The single-dose covid vaccine by manufacturer Janssen has been authorised for use in the UK, the Government has announced. The vaccine can be stored at fridge temperatures of +2-8C and was shown to be 66% effective in pha ... Date: 01-06-2021 Categories: • News |
| Exclusive: Highland pharmacies first to deliver covid vaccines in Scotland Three pharmacies in northern Scotland are among the first to deliver the covid vaccine, the Pharmacist has learned. NHS Highland said that two of the pharmacies in the area already provide the vaccine — one to residents under the age of 49, and the other offering ‘mop-up vaccination ... Date: 03-06-2021 Categories: • Covid-19 • News |
| Over-25s become eligible for Covid jab ... ugh to hospitalisations and that is very good news. ‘This is why we have this race to get everybody vaccinated as soon as possible.’ The MHRA last week authorised the Pfizer/BioNTech covid vaccine for use in teenagers aged 12-15, saying it would now seek JCVI advice on whether ‘routine vaccination’ should be offered to the over-12S. The Pfizer vaccine has been approved for use in those ... Date: 08-06-2021 Categories: • News |
| Exclusive: Is anxiety causing young people to faint after covid vaccine? There has been an increase in the number of people from younger cohorts fainting after receiving their covid vaccine, which some vaccinators are attributing to anxiety and the recent hot weather. Last week, people aged 25-30 were called forward for their covid vaccine, and since then, some pharmacists and other ... Date: 11-06-2021 Categories: • Covid-19 • News |
| Covid booster jab plan released over ‘next few weeks’, says Hancock ... ver the next few weeks, the health secretary has announced. Speaking on BBC Breakfast this morning (21 June), Matt Hancock said that the Government is currently trialling different combinations of covid vaccines to find out which is most effective at providing protection against the virus. ‘When we know the results of that, then we will set out the full plans for the booster programme over the autumn,’ t ... Date: 21-06-2021 Categories: • News |
| Pharmacies should lead on Covid booster jabs to free up GPs’ time ... ic contribution.’ Leyla Hannbeck, chief executive officer at the Association of Independent Multiple Pharmacies (AIMp), said that although not every community pharmacy will be able to deliver the covid vaccine booster ‘the vast majority can’. ‘As part of the Covid booster vaccine plans the ministers must turn to those professionals who are willing and able to step up and assist, and who have a proven tr ... Date: 22-06-2021 Categories: • Covid-19 • News |
| Hancock to ‘propose solutions’ to CPCS issues ... ard’, discussed the new health bill, and members of the pharmacy press were invited to put questions to the secretary of state. Mr Hancock was asked about the sector’s potential involvement in the covid vaccine booster scheme, which could start as early as September alongside the annual flu vaccination programme. In response, Mr Hancock said he was ‘looking for a big shift in the vaccination programme to ... Date: 24-06-2021 Categories: • News |
| Mixing vaccines ‘could lead to better immune responses’ The health secretary has said he is ‘encouraged’ by the covid vaccine ‘mix and match’ trial, which shows that using different vaccines for first and second jabs could ‘possibly’ lead to better immune responses. In his first statement to Parliament as health secretar ... Date: 29-06-2021 Categories: • Covid-19 • News |
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